I don't know about "less likely" - for me it's more that the average disk drive has vastly more space than when it made sense to have "protective" partitions. We remember entire systems that had 300 MB drives, perhaps less. It was easy to tip the scales at that point.
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/01/2013 04:49 PM, Kevin Hart wrote: > >> To Howard. Yea sometimes the simple answer is to do df -h :). I had one >> yesterday that after an hour figured out the nic was running half duplex >> with tons if collisions. Shoulda picked up on that sooner. >> >> As to Curt >> I agree. Back when home was where people wrote to people wanted to save >> that. But I cannot count how many times extra partitions has bit me. But >> maybe one hand where it saved me. I haven't made a machine with more >> than those three in many years. Always seemed I was having to scarily >> shrink one partition to add to another when I had the 7 partition layout. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> > > Oh but we have had this discussion many times in NLUG and it does come > down to a matter of taste. The case was made to isolate /var or even > create /var/log so that when a wayward process went jabberwakky, one could > clear /var/log without trashing other file systems. > > Is it safe to say that linux systems have become less likely to trash out > entire disks when partitions fill up? > > > Howard > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <nlug-talk%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/nlug-talk?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en> > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > nlug-talk+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
