On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Eric J. Pinnell wrote: > What's funny is why we still make partitions in the first place. > > Once was a in the unix world time when disk drives were really small > (100MB) and really expensive. So we had to partition. You couldn't get > all the stuff on one disk. > > Now... with cheap HD's and fast access times there is no need to split > it up... > > ..although always keep you home dir on a seperate partition so when you > upgrade you don't over write your stuff.
you keep root on as small a partition as possible so you can have the system up while you are fixing other partitions. also, keeping stuff on a seperate partition (like /www) makes it easy to swap out sites to different servers and stuff. partitions rule. -- christian void - [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.morphine.com/void/ gpg key available on request _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
