On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 15:17 -0400, Rob Kampen wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Whit Blauvelt wrote:
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:29:32PM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
And as others have said, /home, and maybe /opt, should *always* be other drives, or at least other partitions....
Kind of makes you wonder why RH's default install is to shove everything but boot into one partition these days, doesn't it? In trying to make everything immune from the most clueless users - who might (horrors) make a partition too small - RH defaults to something other than time-honored old-school best practices. Yeah, I never accept the defaults. But I'm not
Very, dare I say it?, Windows-ish. On the other hand, for an enterprise O/S, I would sorta-kinda assume that /home was being NFS-mounted. Just about everywhere I've worked, it is.
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Not trying to hijack but this last comment has provoked a question.
<hijack> If you have multiple CentOS machines that you regularly log onto and use, and these share a common /home/username (via NFS or other SAN mechanism) how do the various .xxxx files manage to work - aren't there potential conflicts? I have two CentOS 5.5 workstations with dual monitors (different sizes though) and another machine with only a single display - wouldn't this cause issues? Unfortunately I do not have enough experience to know what all these various . files contain - if they're only personal preferences and totally unrelated to the hardware then well and good - can someone confirm before I migrate my /home onto my main server and NFS mount it. TIA
I have multiple machine that share /home via NFS. Some have dual displays and some don't. The "normal" behavior for me is that the single-head boxes just ignore the configuration for the second display. Otherwise they all run the same. Note that these are all CentOS 5 machines that get updates applied pretty much all at the same time.
As always, YMMV. ;>
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