Tom Berger wrote:
> Though I can see your point, using more partitions has an advantage in the case
> of drive corruption.
> Usually / should be very small to minimize this danger by reducing the number of
> accesses to it. If your partition becomes corrupted somewhere in /usr you're
> lost. With a distinct root partition you still have a chance to save yourself
> and since there is a tool like Partition Magic (and soon our own DiskDrake), I'd
> still tend to suggest using multiple partitions.
>
> My table:
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3 76M 24M 48M 33% /
> /dev/hda8 486M 149M 311M 32% /home
> /dev/hda10 99M 2.8M 91M 3% /tmp
> /dev/hda11 1.9G 1.0G 813M 57% /usr
> /dev/hda9 152M 12M 132M 8% /var
My question then becomes, why is my / partition so much more crowded
than yours? Mine is 94mb full out of 100mb and that is after I
cleared the old logs out of /var. You only have 24mb in / plus 12m in
var for a total of 36 mb in both. Obviously I have a lot more of
something in root than you do. I thought I was doing a pretty routine
Mandrake 6.0 install. Does anyone have an idea about what would be
taking up so much space? I don't use the root account for e-mail so
that shouldn't be the problem.
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Traci Collins, MA
Professor of Computer Education
Colorado Mountain College
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