I can answer that in one word - "Updates".
It is far easier and safer to do a clean install than to do an update. Part
of the clean full install includes formatting. For myself that would be
deadly as my /home partition has a lot of source code, documents, etc. So
that is partitioned.
Also, wou will see a performance hit the larger the drive gets. IMHO.
Hope that helps,
-Chris
On Sunday 04 February 2001 09:24, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> Can someone please tell me the point of having several partitions on the
> same drive for one GNU/Linux installation? I can't imagine that it would
> be much faster, and there is not really much risk of losing data with
> only one partition, especially with new filesystems like ReiserFS. I
> simply use one partition for everything, and I have had no problems
> whatsoever. If I had several partitions I would be wasting space since
> /boot, / and other partitions would not be full, and so would be robbing
> space from /home.
>
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong, since I'm interested in repartitioning
> my drive to give more room to Linux (about 9GB in total, excluding Swap).
>
> On Sun, 4 Feb 2001 18:48, Christopher Molnar wrote:
> > On Saturday 03 February 2001 17:57, Richard T. Waters wrote:
> > > Whenever a new release comes out I have always been in the habit of
> > > doing a full install, rather than an upgrade.
> >
> > A person after my own heart! Of course doing a backup first of all
> > your data is a good idea!
> >
> > > Of course this entails some backing up and restoring of information.
> >
> > Yup!
> >
> > > I have seen some discussions regarding how many partitions is best
> > > for an install, and I notice there are (as usual)
> > > varying opinions.
> > >
> > > Is there a general guideline I can follow. Do I basically want to
> > > set up /; /boot and /usr? What should be a good
> > > rule of thumb for allocating space for the various partitions?
> >
> > I teach some classes for new Linux users. Here is what I tell them for
> > a 5 Gig drive. (OK, I know I am about to be corrected, flamed, etc for
> > this but I can handle it [sniff] - just remember this is a general
> > suggestion and is not written in stone).
> >
> > Do NOT let the installer auto-partition. I have a different opinion
> > about putting /var onto it's own partition. Don't.
> >
> > These are in order on how I recommend creating on a 5 gig drive:
> > /boot = 64 meg
> > Swap = 2 times the amount of physical memory in your machine. More if
> > a server (probably 4 times).
> > / = 3.5 Gig
> > /home = remainder of all drive space.
> >
> > This seems to let them do a full development install and it works.
> >
> > (OK, let me have it!). Anyways, forgive me mailing list Gods, but if
> > you are near New Haven, CT USA check out the Mandrake Campus courses
> > at: http://www.innovationsw.com/training.
> > -Chris
> >
> > > Christopher Molnar wrote:
> > > > 7.3 ???? NO, No, no.....
> > > >
> > > > 8.0 ---- YES, Yes, yes!
> > > >
> > > > Seriously, this will be a lot of major enhancements, this won't be
> > > > 7.3. And give it a few more months. I am not sure if you already
> > > > subscribe, but if you find the list Cooker Changelog you can watch
> > > > the progress.
> > > >
> > > > -Chris
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----------------------------------------
