On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Person, Roderick wrote:
I used to wonder the samething. When I started using Linux, I always wonder
why partition a disk to use the same OS on all the partitions. Then I made a
big boo boo and hosed system and re-installed all 500MB of downloads again,
that took over a
The best reason I can ever come up with for creating separate partitions is to
allocate space which can't be spared: eg. create a separate /home so users with
accounts on the system can't screw up the system by filling up the disk or so
that
runaway log files can't fill up / and screw things up.
On Tuesday, June 01, 1999 at 14:46:01 -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
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The best reason I can ever come up with for creating separate partitions is
to
allocate space which
know this didn't answer the technical reason, but it sure is great if your
prone to experimention and complete system hosing.
Rod
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Subject: Re: why
This extra hdd is mounted on /home. :)
My concern is the the integrity of the filesystem and hdd driver in
this case. Does a filesystem like this use the location the partition
table uses? If so how big are the odds that Linux will choke on a
corrupt (unknown) partition table?
I guess it's
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