On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Curt Lundgren <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > There was also the performance argument, back in the day. When HDDs were slow, having /var and /home on different physical drives made some sense. If you're going to put it all on one physical volume, I'm not sure what we thought we were accomplishing. For some of us, I'm sure it was like why granny cut off both ends of the ham before she put it in the oven. -- -- 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.
