On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Michael Stearne wrote:
> Why is it better to partition a disk like / gets some space /usr gets
> some /home gets some, etc.?
> Why is this better than just one partition at / that gets 100% of the
> space and the others take what they need.
fsck -- if you have one partition trashed, it is much easier to reinstall
the stuff that's in the one partition.
> Finally. What is a good partition scheme (from scratch, ignore the
> questions above) for a 500MB disk? (32MB of ram, 64MB for swap)
For 500 mb, I'd leave it as one partition (for almost anything under a
gig, with maybe /home separated).
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