reinstalling ubuntu 12.10

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi loannis,

back in the crazy days it was advised to have a seperate /home. Whether
this is still valid these days? Pass... would I ever forgo my seperate
/home partition? Never :)
You can do some crazy things, and bad things can happen to good machines. I
have always preferred my "home (i.e personal data) for my desktop system on
its' own partition. Whilst an upgrade of your system is designed to leave
/home alone. If you have to re-install because it is so badly broken, the
installer will not preserve your /home unless it is in a seperate
partition. It is for each to decide.

Regards,

Phill.




On 8 April 2013 19:41, Ioannis Vranos <ioannis.vranos at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If you do not need separate partitions for some specific reason, I
> suggest install Lubuntu in one / partition, along with a swap
> partition ( it is the default Lubuntu installation).
>
>
> Ioannis Vranos
>
> http://www.cppsoftware.net
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Paul Sutton <zleap at zleap.net> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I need to re-install Lubuntu cleanly,  my current system is dual boot
> > with linpus,   which is never used,   the rest of the system was ubuntu
> > which via apt-get install lubuntu-dekstop now runs that hence i may have
> > previosuly referred to this as hybrid.
> >
> > http://zleap.net/reinstall-of-lubuntu/
> >
> > as you can see from the disk utility the file system is a MESS
> >
> > is the best way to go about reinstalling simply to wipe the whole hard
> > disk and start over
> >
> > in which case 250 gb hard disk
> >
> > split as
> >
> > /boot / 1 GB
> > /home 90 GB  (approx)
> > / 149 GB (approx)
> > /swap about 4 - 8 gb (2gb ram)
> >
> >
> > Currently using just over 50gb for /home (this WILL be backed up)
> >
> > Where does steam install games to ? the main file system or in
> > /home/user this will determine how much I allocate to /home or /
> >
> > the only person using this system is ME and there is an external HDD
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >
> >
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