On Monday 28 June 2004 11:42, Scott Mazur wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:19:46 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 > > 24601004 3389416 19961900 15% /backup > > Cool! Someone else with a hankering for a backup partition. > > I partition every HD with at least one backup partion (usually mounted > on /backup/hda, /backup/hdb, etc) and usually give it 50% of the disk > space. This way it's at least big enough to save a copy of the entire > working partitions (or a good supply incremental backups), although to be > honest, 20g backup more than covers my needs. And more importantly, having > a backup partition on two drives guarantees you won't be toasted should one > drive fail. Just my personal preferences... > > I'm curious. What is the reasoning for splitting /boot at all? Why not > simply leave it in the root / partition? I've always seen it suggested to > be split into it's own partion, I just don't see the point. > > Scott > Cant answer that. I requested info about partitions and processed those into what I provided. No reason other than I didnt know enough to do it diffenently. The only reason for having a backup partition was because that was what was left over and I expected that to be cleared after transfer to cd-rw. It worked the first time and hasnt since. Now its too big for a single cd and I cant figure out how to get it on the cd without splitting some files and randomly placing the others, it would be a nightmare to restore when it exceeded 24gb.
-- Regards; Hoyt
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