Barry Michels wrote: > > The way I look at it, if I run out of space somewhere and have more space on > another partition, I'm screwed, right? So, isn't it better to have one big > / partiton? > > What's the benefit to having separate /, /home, /var, etc?
the main reason I use a / partition and a separate /home is for the occasional update and or reinstall. that way I only change the operating part of the system, without losing all my personal files, like music, or documents , etc. a reasonable / partition ( in my case a 4-5 gig partition ) has always been ample. on my laptop I only have a 2 gig root partition and a 3 gig /home. still plenty. It's really handy to have different partitions for different purposes too. I also have a /backup partition of 10 gig on my main box I use for storage. I would hate to lose anything on that partition if I had to reinstall because i broke something playing around with stuff. and there are no doubt other good reasons to use multiple partitions. My two cents. ;-) Mike McNeese
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