etharp wrote: ><snip> > >>>>Later, I may add additional Linux systems and plan to share the /home >>>>partition with them. The same user names and passwords will be >>>>used . Is there some way to insure that the user ID numbers will be >>>>the same in all systems? Is it just a matter of editing? >>>> > >good question I would like to know the answer if you find out > Look into NIS. This is exactly what it's designed to do. > >>>>Would having / on a separate HD from /home and swap slow things down >>>>or would >>>>it be faster? Advantages or disadvantages??? >>>> > >sometimes I think having the data split between two ide channels might seem >faster, particularly if it is considering seek time as wel as read time > Absolutely faster. You want your user data away from the system disk if at all possible (not always possible. It depends on your particular hardware configuration.)
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