On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 01:00:47PM -0800, 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...
Backups/restores. If I need to restore my root partition I'd rather
load 300 megs from a tape than 30 gigs.
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