On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:40:41AM +0530, Philip S Tellis wrote:
>
> Why not /home? What about /var/spool/mail ? I have a separate
> partition only for mails.
>
o Why not /home ?
This need a a bit of explanation. Please see the snippet below
and note the 1000 in the groups section. This is from a shared
/home between deb and Slack.
-rw-r--r-- bish users 1068 Nov 11 11:25:23 2001 .profile
-rw-r--r-- bish 1000 539 Nov 21 22:07:18 2000 .query.bish
-rw-r--r-- bish users 329 Dec 27 14:48:17 2001 .rhosts
Filenames are not written with the names of owner and group,
rather the uid:gid numbers. Under deb user bish had uid.gid
of bish.bish. Under Slack bish.users. Since most distros have
their own conventions of writing uid.gid, the numbers would
vary. If you do this bit manually, and keep the uid.gid under
a common convention, YES, it is possible. Most people use one
tool or the other to create/ delete users .... even "adduser"
is a tool ...
Bottom line is if you are prepared to do micro-level admining
by hand, yes, /home can be shared ... otherwise expect probs
when you least want it !
o /var/spool/mail
This is a generic dir, owned by root. If you have that kind
of traffic to justify a seperate partition, by all means. It
is unlikely to pose problems with sharing.
>
> Also, if I had more than one distro, they'd all be experime-
> ntal. There's no fun in having a stable system that you never
> risk destroying.
>
As long as yours is an experimental box, by all means.When you
have real time data,or projects on hand, and have to do back-
ups on a daily basis (just to be sure) ... or when you bread
depends on something working rather than something breaking,
you'd revise your opinion.
>
> Half the fun in learning is the constant risk that you might
> damage something. Overcoming that fear is what makes the
> difference between explorers and followers.
>
There is little scope for explorers in Linux these days. We
have seen that exploration phase in 95-96. With no CDs/ net
books/ or knowledgeable folk around, it took me over two
months just to set up X on a trident card! When a post to
LIH sorts out things within two days, the word "excitement"
seems to have taken a different meaning.
If you yearn for exitement-of-the-unknown, you can still
have it. Join the "hurd" gang ;-)
Bish
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