Novice query: Installation Help

[Ric Moore]

On 10/02/2013 09:00 PM, Roger wrote:
>
>>> Others strongly feel that separate /home and / are desirable and that
>>> is fine.  I stopped doing this a couple of years ago however and have
>>> not regretted it.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
> I always installed Ubuntu and Fedora using the default setup with LVM
> and have never had a problem. I have not partitioned for about 8 years.
> Unless there is a need to use a second particular  partition for a
> different installation then don't, LVM works well.
> If you have data to be saved, save it before hand and do a fresh install
> using defaults then drag the saved data in as needed.
I use ext3 on my /opt partition as I don't have to fool with all the 
drive descriptors, labels,etc.  I just mount the sucker as /dev/sda3 in 
/etc/fstab and am done, back in business. :) Ric


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