On Saturday 29 Jun 2002 9:21 pm, Barry Michels wrote: > The way I look at it, if I run out of space somewhere and have more space > on another partition, I'm screwed, right? So, isn't it better to have one > big / partiton?
You are correct. That is why my laptop which only has a 2G HD uses one big '/' partition. You can resize and move partitions, but that is obviously a pain. > > What's the benefit to having separate /, /home, /var, etc? You will notice the benefit to separate /home /opt and /etc directories when you upgrade to Mandrake 9.0. Performing an 'upgrade' to a distro is still not as reliable as users would like, and many people are more comfortable with a fresh install right down to reformatting the partitions. If you have just one big '/' partition that would mean you would lose all your user data in /home, all your configuration settings in /etc and all your 'extra' applications you mat have put in /opt. So by having separate partitions you can reformat '/' and '/usr' without destroying all the other data. Also if you were running a heavy duty server you would want to have different partitions to optimise HD performance, but that is not usually a consideration in a desktop system. derek
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