Re: [tlug] The artist formerly known as 'n'

[Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 06:32:33PM +0900, neil_macphee wrote:

>Well, now that you have me in your crosshairs...

Right were we want you :-)

>and stable, I would prefer to completely go to linux coz of the philosophy 
>and culture, which  I am trying to fit into. 

A malleable pledge, just what we're looking for.  You get to drive us to
Food King! :-)

>I do now partition so that my home directory is on its own partition, but have 
>never tried to get etc on its own partition. It might be a good idea. 

A great thing to do with /home (I did this at work) is run it on a
software RAID 1 (two mirrored disks) device, so that if one of the
disks goes bad, you just keep on going on the other one, with no
restore and replace the failed disk as soon as you can.  Backups
are still a Good Thing in case a power supply failure or such fries both
disks in the RAID 1 device, but this protects you from most hardware
failures that would usually require a restore.  It doens't protect you
from pilot error, though.  If you delete all your stuff, it's just
as gone as if you weren't running RAID 1.

Screwing up and trying to extract yourself is the path of *nix wisdom.
When you can snatch the penguin from my hand, grasshopper, then you too
shall be a BOFH.

J
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