On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 12:45:26PM -0400, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
>
> In my experience, using a total of more than 16 partitions does not work
> very well.
> I would recommend not going over /dev/hda16. You will notice that this
> is as many as are pre-created for you in the /dev directory, and even
> when I did mknod's to extend these, I had trouble.
Yes, that's true, but Sevatio asked for the total number possible, so...
> I'd actually going from a setup of using lots & lots of paritions to a
> minimal setup that puts almost everything on /. The main reason I used
> to have lots of paritions was to protect me in case of a disk disaster,
> but what I'm doing instead (now that I have such a big drive) is
> reserving a parition of 1G that I can use to put a new install as a
> "rescue parition" in case of disaster.
Honestly, that's the way I went as well. With my first linux installation
(SuSE, shame on me *g*) I had a partition vor /var, one for /usr, one for
/home, one for /opt ..... Nowadays I use one for /boot (~10m) and for / and
one for /usr which also contains /home, /opt, /tmp and /var. I figured out
that I waste too much space by creating way too many partitions. And as I'm
a little bit more experienced, I don't have to take that many precautions to
protect me from myself.
Alexander Skwar
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