On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 14:49 -0500, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Benjamin Smith wrote:
>
> > On my hard disk, I have my /home, /boot, and / directories each on their
> > own partitions, and when I'm upgrading my Fedora, I just format / and
> /boot,
> > and leave /home alone. Although I've transfered it a few times between hard
> Yep. ALWAYS have /home on its own partition. You *might* want /opt on its
> own, also. For more on my views on this, here's my copy of the article I
> had published a few years ago in SysAdmin (now defunct, unfortunately)
> <http://24.5-cent.us/upgrading_linux.doc>
Thanks for the good advice. I wondered why the installer gave those
choices. Now it makes sense. All my production data resides on /data
and I tend to leave the standard directories alone but I did create
a /root/bin and put in it simple commands like
.l
# /bin/bash
ls -al
.f
# /bin/bash
find / -iwholename *$1
.fs
# /bin/bash
find /data -iwholename *$1
find /ax -iwholename *$1
find /bx -iwholename *$1
find /cx -iwholename *$1
Obviously with the chmod +x. The last one makes searching times much
faster when seeking non-operating system files.
Because I'm lazy or perhaps because I firmly believe the computer should
do the work for the people not vice versa, I did some links (ln -s) for
service and some copies of ipt tables etc. so I can quickly type
sv ipt status
ipt -I .....
ipt -nvL
Command lines are like what computers used to be like. You know with a
fast but noisy Teletype banging-out text at 75 baud or a luxury terminal
running at a staggeringly fast 300 baud giving a top speed of 30
characters a second.
--
With best regards,
Paul.
England,
EU.
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