Jerry Feldman wrote:
I always keep my /home directory and my /usr/local directory separate. On my desktop I have enough disk to dual boot 2 different Linux distros, so I boot into the new distro (usually the next SuSE release) and both share my home directory. I always make sure that my user id and group ids are the same on my network (at most 3 Linux computers). I probably should run NIS, but the laptops need a separate home directory for obvious reasons.
Expanding on my previous reply on the subject and why multiple partitions don't save you from the corruptions hardware can cause, I do regular backups of directories such as /home, /etc and /root and others I consider critical. I backup to a spare HD on the secondary IDE port. On the Mandrake box I use a SCSI disk as backup. I also rsync those directories across to other machines, so I have multiple backups for when the inevitable happens - in the last 5 years I've had two instances of bad hardware that has rendered useless any HD written to. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====