On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:58, Steve Brorens wrote: > By the way, this whole business of multiple filesystems and having to > preset the sizes is A Real Pain for users used to any other OS - is > there any move to fix whatever obscure archaic reason there once was for > this requirement?
The "obscure archaic reason" is simply that in the olden days when disk sizes were - by today's standards - miniscule, it was essential to be able to conveniently spread, and extend, logical file systems over several spindles. The "obscure archaic reason" is added to by the very real up-to-minute reason that for security you want to have the logs and the home directories on partitions separate from the o/s itself so that it is impossible for a run-a-way user process to fill the entire disc with files, thus effectively putting the system into a coma. The standard Gentoo install fails in this regard. :-( -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
