On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 13:41, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:32:35PM -0600, Joel Rosenberg wrote: > > > > I see no reason to divide the drive otherwise. > > > > How about this one: > > > > I've decided on Linux, but I'm not sure which distro, or which version > > I'm going to settle on. I know that I'm going to want to work on the > > same files in my /home directory, and I'm perfectly willing to dedicate > > a small part of the disk to an ext2 /boot partition -- but I haven't, > > yet, decided whether my / partition should be on a ext2, ext3, RAID, or > > rfs partition, much less whether I should trade off performance vs. > > safety for striping the /var stuff, which I don't horribly mind losing. > > Further, I do want to be able to create an on-disk backup of some > > critical files, then unmount the backup partition -- part of the Safety > > Through Paranoia program. > > I don't think the backup thing is wise -- put it on other media. I did say "part." The book in progress is not, by my policy, officially "backed up" until it exists on two local computers, a offsite ftp location, and has been emailed to hotmail. > -- ------------------------------------- There's a widow in sleepy Chester Who weeps for her only son; There's a grave on the Pabeng River, A grave that the Burmans shun, And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri Who tells how the work was done. -------------------------------------