RE: why make partitions?

1999-06-02 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: I used to wonder the samething. When I started using Linux, I always wonder why partition a disk to use the same OS on all the partitions. Then I made a big boo boo and hosed system and re-installed all 500MB of downloads again, that took over a

Re: why make partitions?

1999-06-01 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The best reason I can ever come up with for creating separate partitions is to allocate space which can't be spared: eg. create a separate /home so users with accounts on the system can't screw up the system by filling up the disk or so that runaway log files can't fill up / and screw things up.

Re: why make partitions?

1999-06-01 Thread Lazarus Long
On Tuesday, June 01, 1999 at 14:46:01 -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-UIDL: e4da9602a16b12e6fe1dfa928c15b9e8 The best reason I can ever come up with for creating separate partitions is to allocate space which

RE: why make partitions?

1999-06-01 Thread Person, Roderick
make partitions? The best reason I can ever come up with for creating separate partitions is to allocate space which can't be spared: eg. create a separate /home so users with accounts on the system can't screw up the system by filling up the disk or so that runaway log files can't fill up

Re: why make partitions?

1999-06-01 Thread Remco van 't Veer
This extra hdd is mounted on /home. :) My concern is the the integrity of the filesystem and hdd driver in this case. Does a filesystem like this use the location the partition table uses? If so how big are the odds that Linux will choke on a corrupt (unknown) partition table? I guess it's

Re: why make partitions?

1999-06-01 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Lazarus Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Tuesday, June 01, 1999 at 14:46:01 -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: | Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) | X-UIDL: e4da9602a16b12e6fe1dfa928c15b9e8 | | The best reason I can ever come up with for creating

why make partitions?

1999-05-29 Thread Remco van 't Veer
Hi, Is the any technical reason why I should fdisk an extra IDE hdd and not mkfs the whole thing at ones? Apart from: hdb: unknown partition table at boot time everything works perfectly.. Any thoughts? Regards, Remco -- Kosto World Trade Center anthrax plutonium SEAL Team 6 Nazi nuclear