I'm getting a new desktop, from Chillblast at Tower Park, and on Tuesday
in the pub I asked some questions that seemed relevant for setting it up
with Ubuntu. I'm just noting here the answers I received, as I remember
them. Please feel free to correct or amplify them.
Currently, on my old PC, with 2 users it takes a long time to switch
from one to the other but is much quicker vice versa. (Both are already
logged in.) Christopher thought that this could be because one of the
users is the administrator. Therefore a better solution would be to
have a separate admin account. That seems a bit tedious but could be
worth it. Does admin have to be logged in to receive and process updates?
I'll have an SSD on the new PC and I want to put one user on this and
the other(s) on the HDD. Victor strongly recommended that the top level
directories are different for each of these. So, /ssd would have the
home directory of one user and be mounted on an SSD partition, and /home
would have all the others on the HDD. Also, I presume I should have
another SSD partition for / and a third for swap (swap same size as RAM?)
Victor, I mentioned a current problem about the boot pausing because I
had deleted a partition with gparted offline but it was still listed in
fstab. After continuing the boot and logging in I couldn't find info
about the problem (I didn't know the cause at this time), so I had to
reboot and write (yes, pen and paper!) the UUID down. Victor, your
instant reaction was - look at the logs. Could you give a simple primer,
or say where to find one, about the most useful logs?
Thanks for your trouble.
Regards,
John
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