On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:23:11 -0400 BJ Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm not sure of you mount scheme either. > Can you call a partition anything you want and assign it to part 1 thru 12 ? People's mount schemes are based on their personal needs & experience. I think these schemes have been debated back and forth for some time now :). But essentially you can name the partition anything you want, with the following caveats: 1) You can only have 4 primary partitions on a hard drive, so this basically means that partition 4 is an "extended partition" containing the rest of the available partitions. That's why yuo don't see a 'part4' listed, it's the extended partition. 2) the names chosen should be meaningful, because they are mounted onto the main tree (in other words, / ) by the mount command. In other words, sver on partition 7 (using his example) there are files starting with "home" - every file "underneath" home is located on that partition. When he mounts "home", all directory requests "/home/somethingorother" just get routed to that particular partition. The main reasons for doing this is flexibility and to have more space available. And, you don't need a swap partition on each drive, but balancing them across multiple drives may prove beneficial. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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