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Operating Systems Linux Are /home partitions worth it? Post 302864005 by sea on Tuesday 15th of October 2013 03:32:58 PM

10-15-2013

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Enterprise use: No, just read so in another forum.
Personal use: Yes, several first hand experiences, though, half of them were because encryption was included, but not the cause for the trouble in the first place.

Either way, for anyone coming from a Windows world, i dont want to make their first Linux experience more challenging than necessary.
Specialy in a thread asking for help with plain partitions.

EDIT:
Edited previous post to state that that statement is ment for personal use.
I do have to admit, i do feel more save with an encrypted LVM than with an encrypted plain partition - but then again, its harder to get my own data back too. (backups aside)

EDIT:
Eg: http://lwn.net/Articles/522073/
https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...lvm-issue.html
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=288770

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URL(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    URL(4)

NAME

     url -- Realtek RTL8150L USB Ethernet driver

SYNOPSIS

     url*    at uhub?
     urlphy* at mii?

DESCRIPTION

     The url driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Realtek RTL8150L USB-ether bridge chip.

     The url driver supports the following adapters:

	   CompUSA USBKR100
	   GreenHouse GH-USB100B
	   Melco Inc. LUA-KTX
	   Sitecom LN013

     For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).

DIAGNOSTICS

     url%d: watchdog timeout  A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the
     transmission before a timeout expired.

     url%d: no memory for rx list  The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring.

SEE ALSO

     arp(4), mii(4), netintro(4), usb(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY

     The url device driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.6.

AUTHORS

     The url driver was written by Shingo WATANABE <nabe@nabechan.org>.

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