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  1. 02-28-2009 #1
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    Hola

    I'm not too good with introductions. I'm used to a slow assimilation into society. But here's my intro anyways:

    Hi, I'm new to Linux so I hope you can bare my constant n00b questions. I'm pretty good at figuring things on my own, though. I just hope I don't accidentally format my whole hard drive. I'll mostly be hanging out in this forum until I learn enough to help people with problems.

    And I don't mind if you immediately call me Jared, I'm used to it.



    So... Hi
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    Howdy and Welcome.
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    Welcome to the forums, Jared!
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    Welcome to the forums First bit of advice, if you have an external hard drive backup your home folder...just in the case that you accidentaly format your hard drive Although...it's pretty hard to do that in Linux without meaning to
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    Quote Originally Posted by jmadero View Post
    Welcome to the forums First bit of advice, if you have an external hard drive backup your home folder...just in the case that you accidentaly format your hard drive Although...it's pretty hard to do that in Linux without meaning to
    My home folder is in a whole other partition, and it's hard for me to erase a whole hard drive without going partition-by-partition. But I sort of screwed it up. I put my / into a 5 gig partition and /home into a 56 gig partition. It was supposed to be the other way around. But I'm too lazy to fix it.
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    That's actually how you want it. Your OS partition doesn't need to be bigger than 10 gigs max (mine is 5.5), my home folder is 80 gigs. Unlike Windows, most things go through your home folder, not system folders. Your desktop is part of your home folder, all your config files are in your home folder, etc....
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    Oh ok I guess there's no need to correct it then.
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