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On 25/10/12 18:20, Migel Wimtore wrote:
Hi. If you DON'T format the home partition during install you won't lose anything. Might be worth renaming .config and some other folders (.KDE/.KDE4), to avoid any application configuration confusion. If you are super paranoid back it up though. What about buying a caddy for a couple of quid on eBay and sticking an old desktop or laptop drive in that, for external use?
That's assuming Neil has a separate home partition :-)If not, Neil when you next install Linux it could be worth going for the manual partitioning option in the installer and creating a separate partition for '/' and one for '/home'.
Personally I tend to make my '/' partition around 10GB which seems to leave about 4GB or so free and then allocate the rest of the drive between '/home' and swap.
At the moment I have a small swap partition (about 384MB) which I'm starting to think might be a little small, but that could be due to having so many tabs open in Firefox (the Flash plugin is taking a good 50% of the memory!). I'm even mulling over increasing the size of the swap partition to the size of the memory I have in the system (4GB) or at least half of it.
As for external hard drives, they're all pretty much the same these days. I'd suggest maybe going for a USB 3 drive as it should be backwards compatible and if you upgrade your machine (or if it's a desktop, fit a USB 3 card) then you can benefit from the faster transfer speeds. Maybe even consider having two drives and doing alternate daily or weekly backups and keeping one drive off site.
Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq