On 04 December 2002 10:33 Anne Wilson said: > Supplementary question: I have /home set as a separate > partition and all the > rest in one. I did this because it seemed to me that this > would be a more > 'elastic' way, in the sense that I didn't know sensible sizes > for other > partitions, and I figured that just doing them as directories > instead of > partitions would allow them to self-adjust. Was I right?
Yes > Are there any > serious problems with this strategy? No. That is, you don't gain in efficiency and you lose in flexibility by partitioning. There might be a small gain you can make by mounting the invarient parts read-only, but I've never heard of it being done. On a fragmented disk a partitioned system would have less widely seperated fragments, but would be more likely to fragment in the first place. A related question: On a two disk system what is the best arrangement? I would guess / on the first disk, and /var and /home on the second. -- Richard Urwin, Private Confirmed as a crazy system administrator (NAG p348) ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com ________________________________________________________________________
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