Adivce on Partitions

[Thiers Botelho]

Hi Andy, thanks a lot . . . and one more question (hopefully the last
one about this subject):

On 6/2/06, Andy Anderson <opus at slowlanecafe.com> wrote:
> >
> > One single /boot for both Ubuntu's ?

[snip]

> So to answer your question, yes, a single /boot for all OSes.  I let the
> installer
> for the latest Ubuntu release install it's version of Grub into the MBR,

Since you have Windoze as well, I'd think the best place for Grub
would be /boot and not the MBR. At least that was the prevalent
recommendation a while ago on Fedora site and lists.

The main reason for this would be, that any future reinstall of
Windoze would not clobber your Grub configuration.

I suppose you have considered this option and preferred not to use it
- any thoughts on this ?

> >
> >> . . . but with
> >> subdirectories for each release, such as /home/ubuntu510 for
> >> Breezy and /home/ubuntu606 for Dapper user home directories.
> >> This takes a little extra effort, but not much.
> >
> >
> > Do you cook this up during install or do it afterwards ? Quite clever
> > ! I was previously thinking of 2 /home's (just as you do for / and
> > /var), but your branching approach seems cleaner and also much better
> > backup-wise.
>
> I do it after each install.  This requires editing the /etc/passwd file to
> have the correct paths to home directories, and also modifying the
> defaults for useradd, but again, that's not too difficult.  You just have
> to remember to do everything.

Well, considering that this involves tracking a lot of details, maybe
two independent /home's might be a less trouble-prone option for me.

> I hope this is clear and helpful.  If you have any further questions
> please ask.
>

Thanks again, Andy. Very clear and very helpful.

> --
> Andy Anderson