Niclas Hedhman wrote:
>
> I have a follow-up question...
> Being utterly uncertain of the sizes of the different parts of my file system,
> why should I partition it at all (I understand the Swap issue)??
>
> What is the down-side of having a single large partition? Please elaborate,
> because I can't see it.
>
> Niclas
>
Hi Niclas!
There is a saying that goes: "The steady state of disks is full." and I
think that goes for partitions as well. Only problem is that the
filesystem gets unstable if the partition it�s on gets over 95% full, at
least that�s what I experienced. Not so good if /boot with your
kernel(s) or /bin or /sbin are on it... So, it�s in order to be able to
shift these to a larger partition. Also, if you have a separate
partition for /home and you upgrade or change your distribution, you
needn�t format that and keep all your configuration files.
See you, Christoph
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