Brand New Hard drive Breezy install....

Scott angrykeyboarder at gmail.com
Fri Oct 21 21:38:28 UTC 2005


On 10/21/2005 01:55 PM, Charles Malespin wrote:

> Thanks for all the help... Writing this from a perfect install of 
> Breezy on my brand new hard drive.  No problems at all.  I made a 50 
> Gb  root partition, 2 Gb swap, and 198 Gb home.  A question about the 
> separate home, if I install programs, music, etc, and download them 
> and save them to my home partition, do I need to do anything to have 
> it read from my root?  Bascially, I had a hoary where root and home 
> where together, now that they are separate do I need to do anything 
> different running programs that I have saved etc.?  thanks again 
> everyone,
> charles
>
>

Your partitioning setup is quite common. It shouldn't matter that you 
have your home directory on a seprate partition. That's quite popular as 
comes in handy when doing backups or reinstalling.

Good luck.

Scott




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