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- From: junio@twinsun.com (Jun Hamano)
- Subject: Re: Question and Observations
- In-Reply-To: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca's message of Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:06:23 GMT
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- References: <marcf.725558783@yorku.ca>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 22:16:24 GMT
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- Marc G Fournier <marcf@nexus.yorku.ca> asks a couple of questions
- and comments in <marcf.725558783@yorku.ca>.
-
- As to passwd expiration problem, read manual page of `passwd' and
- find how to use `-x' option.
-
- About mkfs `-i'. It doesn't affect the blocksize. Traditional
- unix filesystem (and MINIX filesystem linux uses) allocates
- storage for inode area and blocks when the filesystem is
- initialized, and mkfs have to figure out how many inodes it needs
- to allocate for the filesystem being created. The ideal
- configuration is that you run out inodes and block storage space
- at the same time; otherwise either one of these would be wasted.
- If you expect you will have a lot of small files, then give
- smaller value to `-i' option so that you won't run out of inodes
- before you run out of disk space.
-
- About your `gripes' section; I too have the same feeling about
- SLS distribution, but this is certainly _not_ the problem with
- linux itself. We should send bug-reports and suggestions to
- people (person?) at SoftLanding so that the next release will
- have more reasonable configuration. From what I've seen in
- c.o.l, about 30% of newbee questions and gripes wouldn't have
- been posted in the first place if SLS release did things right
- (e.g. "/etc/passwd not being readable by everybody" comes to
- mind). It is a trivial, but a tad tedious task to fix all the
- ownership and permission bits and such, but SLS release has so
- much influence to those naive linux users with little or no unix
- experience, we should urge and help SLS to provide more
- reasonable and easy to manage system configuration. I think it
- would benefit us, too; we wouldn't have to be bothered by trivial
- questions every time somebody finds out his users get error
- message from `who' command, for example.
-
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