Carlos E. R. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The Wednesday 2007-10-10 at 10:24 -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > >>> on one drive. I like to make /home /tmp /var & /usr separate. Include >>> the >>> primary / and you have used 15 partitions. Include one swap for all >>> of them >>> and you now have used 16. Actually /swap is on another drive. I still >>> have >>> about 80GB left on that disc and not enough partitions to use it if I >>> continue with my current thinking. What are the three that you use? >>> Are you >>> not afraid of running out of space in the partitions which can grow >>> so fast? >> >> But why do you need separate partitions for all of those? All it adds is >> complexity, unless you live and breathe 'dd', which is most >> comfortable with >> partitions. You would have separate partitions if you wanted to share >> the /home >> folder, for instance, but not if they are completely isolated. Just >> put them >> all in / and be done with it, I say. > > I don't see why we should put everything in /.
Not saying you should, just wondering why you wouldn't. Seems to be much less complicated that way. >> >> And why not share the swap partition? Nothing special goes in there. >> >> I'm an OS junkie too, but four partitions per hard drive work fine. > > How do you install half a dozen OSes in the same disk, without doing > partitions? Well, I stick with four myself, but as I have 3 drives, each can have 4 of them. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linux Brain Dump - Linux Notes, HOWTOs and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbraindump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
