Mark Weaver wrote:
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> what if you have a head crash on that disk. Your reserve install isn't
> going to do anything then.
Having separate partitions isn't going to do anything, either, if the
drive is really physically toasted. That's why there's no substitute
for backups.
But if the file system is just messed up it gives me a staging area to
recover with the file system editor and what-not.
And by using fewer paritions I don't wind up spending lots of time
playing the partition-juggling game, which has never been a favorite of
mine.
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> Mark
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> On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
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> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 08:41:04AM +0000, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
> > > > Where could I find some answers on the limits of partitioning your HD?
> > > > i.e. Number of primary & logical partitions allowed.
> > >
> > > Get a book about basic computing for DOS. 4 primary, max. 1 of the 4 may be
> > > an extended which can contain basically an unlimited number of logic
> > > partitions. Practically you can not create more than 63 partitions on an
> > > IDE disk and 16 on an SCSI disk. At least not with linux.
> > >
> > > Alexander Skwar
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