On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 15:17 -0400, Rob Kampen wrote: > m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > Whit Blauvelt wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:29:32PM -0400, m.roth at 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. > > <snip> > > > 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. ;> > </hijack> > > mark > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Ron Loftin reloftin at twcny.rr.com "God, root, what is difference ?" Piter from UserFriendly