Jonathan Claxton wrote: > Then do what I do, create a seperate partition like I did for my home > directory, something like /home1. I been doing this for more than 10 > years. Same thing for your data. Put it on another partition and create > sym links to it from the root directories. > > Also, I have two "root" directories that I install to. Whenever I install > a new release, I install it to the other root direcotory. I think you're effectively answering my question from the other day, that got lost amidst other discussions. Let me restate it real briefly: * I have no "preferences" info worth saving. I want all my apps to start from scratch. * I have to rebuild my root partition since it's too big and includes filesystems that should have their own partitions. All this points to a "destructive" install. But ... * Could I clobber RH8 and build Gentoo or Fedora, without losing all my just-plain-data stored elsewhere on other ext2 partitions? I don't want the install deciding to take possession of my old partitions till I'm ready to mount them. Vic