On Thursday 21 April 2005 10:26 pm, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> That doesn't work nearly as well for Windows.  When you upgrade the
> system, all of the data in the profiles still has to be backed up and
> later restored, because the profile directories are (usually)wiped out
> when the user is created, and any settings in the registry (where most
> Windows programs store preferences) are lost because the registry hive
> cannot be reused (not to mention the system registry hives, which are
> stored in the windows system directories, not the user profile
> directories).
>
> With Linux, I retained all of my data, application settings,
> preferences, etc...  The only headaches I had were from migrating
> certain applications off my Windows box onto Linux, and that was still
> easier than migrating from one Windows machine to another.  The rest of
> the system "Just Worked" after the upgrade (I still had to reinstall
> many applications, but that took less than 2 hours, compared to the 3
> weeks it took to re-do all my application settings last time I performed
> a Windows "upgrade")
>
> I'm not saying that you cannot improve some aspects of system management
> in Windows by using a separate partition for the user profiles, only
> that it doesn't work nearly as well as the same tactic does in Linux.  I
> have been working in the Windows world for 17 years (since version
> 1.0!), and I've only rarely used multiple partitions, primarily because,
> even with 2000, XP, or 2003, the system still has so many assumptions of
> a C: drive, that it's just easier to manage with a single large
> partition (the settings directory works just as well for backup
> management on C: as it would on D:, and there's not much other benefit
> from partitioning a single drive)
>
> ==Joseph++

You make some very good points. About all a D drive can do is save data, not 
all the user preferences, etc that a /home partition can save. 

Siri Amrit
>
> Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> >On Thursday 21 April 2005 06:04 am, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> >>Note to persons installing Linux, use a separate /home partition, I
> >>redid part of my partition scheme, and installed a completely different
> >>system, and I didn't lose a single personal file, Linux is WAY better
> >>than Windows in that regard...
> >
> >It is possible to do the same for Windows. When installing, use fdisk to
> >create a small partition C for the O/S, and a large partition D for data.
> >
> >Siri Amrit
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