Check out the "multi-disk-HOWTO" (the name might be slightly different) by
Stein Gjoen. You get get it from http://www.linuxdoc.org/. It has a very
good explanation of how and why things are the way they are. One of the
best HOWTOs around.
Greg
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 1:27 AM
> To: Linux-RAID
> Subject: multiple partitions
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am hoping someone might help me understand why Linux is
> usually setup
> a certain way.
>
> Most Linux PC have only one disk drive yet it is recommended that the
> disk be partitioned into many pieces (home, root, var, swap).
> I thought
> this kind of setup would cause excessive disk head movement.
> What is the
> advantage of have root, home, var in seperate partitions and why isn't
> disk head movement excessive?
>
