Re: Offtopic Linux stuff
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:23:13 +0200, Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen <nieuwen at XS4ALL.NL>
wrote:
Make a partition with disk druid of about 100 Mb,
>format it as 'Linux-native' and mount it '\', make one of about 150 and
format it as 'Linux-swap', make one of at least 500
>(according to the manual) Mb and mount it to '/usr' (mounting seems to be
assigning directories to devices), and you may want to
>make another one and mount it to 'home'.
>
>In other words, to my surprise, Linux uses a different partition for many
things, to speed stuff up.
>
To expand a little on Ralf's suggestions:
1. Make the Linux native even bigger, since you have plenty of disk
available. 200-300 megs.
2. Everything in Linux, the hard drive, floppy, CDROM, etc.is just a
subdirectory on one big disk, even thought some things are obviously
separate pieces of hardware.
3. Yes - create a /home partition. Every user gets their own space
in the /home directory, i.e.: /home/irv /home/sue ...etc.
Then when I log in, I get MY window manager, MY email, MY netscape,
and so on, but when Sue logs in, she gets HER window manager- completely
different, HER e-mail....etc. Depending on how you set up the permissions,
I may, or may not, be able to browse thru Sue's files and directories.
Or, if I can browse and read the files, I may not be allowed to edit or
delete them. In fact, I may not even be able to see any sign of other
users. You can allocate varying amounts of disk space to each user,
so no one can take more than their allotment (and when they check
free disk space, they see the number for their own allotment)
4. Always set yourself up as a user, and don't log in as "root"
except when installing new software. That is a terrific protection
against those silly, but disasterous, miskates.
Regards,
Irv
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