Re: Partitioning schemes (was RE: Mailman....)

[David H. Adler]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 01:01:24PM +0000, Neil Ford wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:42:34AM +0000, Steve Mynott wrote:
> >>
> >>  I don't think you can really blame the distribution (which allows you
> >>  to partition the disk how you want) for someone partitioning the disk
> >>  wrongly.
> >
> >Except that the box came to me like this.  I intend to rectify this in
> >a bit by scaping red hat off with a large trowel and installing
> >something useful, but I'm still trying to figure out why *anyone*
> >would partition it this way... :-/
> >
> Because they were used to the BSD way of things where most stuff goes 
> in /usr and were expecting Linux to put it all in /home.

One would expect VA Linux to be more used to linux than bsd.
YMMV. :-)

dha

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