On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, 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
>
Well as to it having down-sides is a question which will get many
different answers.
I would NOT simply make 2 partitions one swap the rest one big disk.
Why;
1) think of bootime fsck it will take ages for fsck to check 13GB,
depending on the speed of the CPU it could take up to 15 minutes
or even longer.
2) having mulitple partitions allows you to experiment with other
distro's while keeping your origanal system intacht.
3) seek time would be higher on a 13GB partition, as to it having a
noticable effect yes i think it would when searching the disk. I
could go on and on, however the best way is to do what you want, but
i would advise doing a little reading of the installation howto
first, which is to be found on all distribution sources.
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Regards Richard
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