On Tuesday 23 March 2004 22:48, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 10:10 PM 3/23/2004 +0100, pa3gcu wrote:\ > [...] > > You need to brush up on your arithmetic, Richard. > > 2004 - 1970 != 24 > 2004 - 1970 = 34
AH!, well i did say i was 53 ;-), i am not going to say it wa say typo, i simply did not do my sums correctly, thanks for the point out. > I first used a Unix system around 1981 myself. There were some (PDP-11s, I > think ... for me, just whatever was at the other end of the terminal's > serial line) at Stanford, where I was doing graduate work. > > And at about the same time, I had a friend at Tymshare who did development > work on Unix systems, implementing some ideas of Doug Englebart's under the > name Augment. > > So 20 years of Unix experience is, while no doubt rare, not implausible. I dont think i said it was not, i think i said if one has that sort of experiance why ask such questions. ;-) > > BTW, on the partitioning question .. I find I prefer to partition my boot > drives, at least the big ones we use these days, into four partitions: > > hda1 = /boot, a small partition > hda2 = /, usually around 10 GB > hda3 = swap, size varies > hda4 = /home, whatever is left > > Set up this way, it means I can do a complete Linux reinstall without > worrying about accidental overwriting of anything on the /home partition > (since I don't mount it until after the system is installed on /). It also > simplifies recovery after a crash, in that I can "cheat" and just fsck > hda2, or I can run hda2 as ext2 and hda4 as a journaling filesystem. > > But all that is just personal preference ... there is no single right > answer to the partitioning question. I go for the one big partition thesdays with reiserfs, my 120Gb disks are slpit into +/- 40Gb, so i can install a new system and copy what i want afterwards. One small problem with simply using say /home from an old install can cause hell when something like KDE changes things like it did from 3.0 to 3.2, i had many wired effects when i mounted my old /home dir. /boot well in thesdays of no problems with the 1023 cyls mark /boot is really a luxe and nothing more. Anyway i must agree with you Ray, its a question of taste and really press home that in thesedays of big drives and reiserfs the need for other partitions becomes a point of discussion. Now i am going to go and knock off those 10 years i just forgot about in my last mail, boy i wish i was 43 again..... At least i would have gotten my sums correct ;-( -- If the Linux community is a bunch of theives because they try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows community is built on organized crime. Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
