On Tuesday, June 01, 1999 at 14:46:01 -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) > X-UIDL: e4da9602a16b12e6fe1dfa928c15b9e8 > > 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.
IMO, the best reason to make partitions is so the KERNEL will be guaranteed to be located below cylinder 1024 for /sbin/lilo. Otherwise, later kernel installations will run the risk of making your system unbootable from those kernels (or at all even.) -- PGP Public Key available on request: Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 1024/CFED2D11 1998/03/05 Lazarus Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = 98 2A 56 34 16 76 D5 21 39 93 99 EA 89 D4 B5 A2