[Gllug] x server fail at boot

[Ryan Cartwright]

Dylan wrote:
> On Friday 13 June 2008, Diana Scott wrote:
>> Hi
 >> does that mean i have to reinstall the whole suse 10.3 including
losing my
>> data files ?

Diana: you *do* have a recent backup - right?

> If you make a separate partition for your home directories then the data will 
> not be touched by a re-install (or upgrade.)

s/will/should

I gave that advice to someone once and during the re-install they chose
to format and the whole drive as "recommended" by the installer. It was
a while ago now but the experience of calming them down while explaining
it wasn't really my fault has kind of stuck with me (They had a backup
as it happens so all they lost was time). ;o)
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Ryan Cartwright
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