Hello Roy.

01 Sep 03 20:01, you wrote to me:

 RT> Right now I have:

 RT> / = /dev/hda1
 RT> swap = /dev/hda2
 RT> /home = /dev/hdb1
 RT> /var = /dev/hdb2

 RT> Those last two saved me a lot of grief last time I upgraded...

Yep.  I used to do the /var thingy but now I just leave it as part of the
root partition and go with an archive partition instead.  I really ought to
clean that one up as well as my /home.  One of these days.  I did manage to
do a backup of them so I am not too worried about it.

 RT> I'll need to take a good look around before I actually go ahead and do
 RT> anything.

You shouldn't need too much from /etc if you're planning to install 9.0. 
Maybe your ppp setup scripts.  You could copy them to /home and then move
them back after you install.

 RT> A UPS is definitely on my list of stuff to get.  Even if I can find
 RT> one which needs batteries,  since I have batteries...

Me too but my plan is to just use the batteries as a power source.  The
plan is to get all the computer stuff off the grid.  Having two gel
batteries would allow a backup while the other gets charged up.  They are
extremely good batteries and if I keep everything to a minimum I think they
should run for days, maybe even weeks, per charge.  That is the plan.

 RT> My thinking exactly.  And I suspect that this is probably the reason
 RT> that ext2 is the last of several choices in the 8.1 install process.

Now reiserfs is the default with ext3 and ext2 being alternatives.  I go
with ext3 myself.  Works good ... so far.  It's been some time now and
after the power outage yesterday it fired up without any problem.  If it
had been ext2 it would have gone through all that fscking for the three
mounted partitions.  I like ext3.  :-)

Maurice

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