[Sussex] Hello!

[Geoff Teale]

Dominic wrote:
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> from my newbie position here... I agree!
> I've got to say that whilst learning, there's a _lot_ of 
> value in separating
> out the /usr and possibly /var partitions as when (_not_if_ 
> :p ) you have to
> bugger about from boot disks to get things going again, you 
> can easily mount
> stuff and trash stuff, whilst still getting at those 
> important, yet still
> not fully backed up config files :)
> 
> Those in the higher echelons amongst us would I'm sure argue 
> against it, but
> it saved me on more than enough occasions :)
> 
> If in doubt... separate it out :}

No disagreement here.. I just though it would make life simpler to setup my
way.  You are absolutely right about the benefits of seperation.  

I'd just like to second Steve's point . .where possible swap space on a
seperate physical disk can really help your systems performance.  This is
especially important on multi-processor machines as their memory habit is at
a more advanced stage than most single CPU machines and when they want it
they want it __NOW__!

-- 
geoff.teale at claybrook.co.uk
tealeg at member.fsf.org

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of
course, in a state of sin.
-- J. von Neumann


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