On Saturday 04 August 2001 12:29 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> Having one partition is like putting all your eggs in one basket. If
> / fails, then you lose all your user /home data as well. Also, a
> multiple partition setup can speed up disc accesses, particularly on
> larger drives such as yours.
I believe this is the key. On 8gig and smaller drives I've always
installed Linux in one big / partition. Now that I've got 37 gigs for
Linux, I use / and /home plus another 2 storage partitions.
The advantage to using one big / on smaller drives is that you only
havt'a worry about total space remaining, rather than not having enough
in /, /home, and others. Specially if you have room (eg, on a Windoze
drive) to bakup /home to.
>
> On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 12:46, Randy Kramer wrote:
> > Why would you put the /usr and /home each on a different partition
> > and not = with the same /(root) partition?
> > And by the way, I am getting a 20GD HD...=20
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Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay
