On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Lukas Eppler wrote:
> I am relatively new to linux. I am asking back: What is bad about one big
> partition? I have it like that, I am flexible as hell, and have no clear
> problems with it.
Well, if you wanted to export part of your drive (say /usr) to another
machine so that machine didn't have to have all that stuff installed
locally, it's tough.
Also, some people like to mount directories such as /usr, (soon /etc),
read-only so that they can't get accidentally fuggled with by doing screwy
things as root, etc.
I do it because if something goes wrong, I can fsck one part of the tree
(one partition) much faster than I can fsck the whole darn thing.
Will
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