Invisible wrote:

> Hildur K. wrote:
> 
>> Early on (after my first HD crash which
>> wasn´t a physical crash, only a partial wipe out)I went into the habit of
>> dividing my hard drives into partitions. Both my PC´s now have 4
>> partitions, each on a single physical drive, which means I use the
>> primary partition (C) for the OS, drivers and programs, and the other
>> partitions (D,E,F) for all work and data (NEVER saving to "MyDocuments"
>> or "Desktop"). The hard drives are much more reliable nowadays so I´m not
>> so worried about data loss.
>> 
>> In the (very likely) case my OS eventually crashes, I can reinstall or
>> upgrade without touching the other partitions so there is no loss of
>> data.
> 
> I do this.
> 
> I mean, *now* I have multiple seperate physical HDs so it's kind of
> unavoidable having seperate logical volumes. But I did it back when I
> only had one drive too. Makes reinstalling the OS that much easier
> without losing work. (If anything on my PC could be considered "work".)
> 
> I also have a big folder containing the installers for every program
> I've ever downloaded, so I can reinstall them all quickly without having
> to redownload them. (OTOH, I typically end up downloading a newer
> version anyway, so I'm not sure who I'm kidding...)

When I installed Linux (Ubuntu), I didn't separate /home into a second
partition. Stupid me. Now I want to switch distro, and I know it won't be
such an easy task...

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