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On 25/10/12 19:08, Rob Beard wrote: > 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'. > Yes, I do have /home on a separate partition. > 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. > I do have a small swap partition too, but it never seems to be usede. > 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. > Yes, it is a desktop and it does have only USB2 drives only. For the little amount I use them I have not bothered with upgrading. Thanks Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq