On Sun, 31 May 2009 10:49:18 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar <[email protected]> wrote: > all your examples are sounds just like kind of "tradition". > Just like for eg. creating lots of partitions no matter if it's needed or > not
One exception: The creation of different partitions according to different uses can (but doesn't neccessarily have to) be useful if partition-wise dumps are required or intended. As you know, there are advantages and disadvantages. There can be trouble, causing only one of the partition to get defects; it's easy to dump and restore data partition-wise, even for to clone system installations. On the other hand, you can run into problems according to static space limits which you don't when you have only one / partition and all directories are "resized" automatically (haha)... :-) File system defects will of course affect the whole partition then. (But that's a different situation anyway: If there's trouble with some hard disk, better transfer what you can get onto a new media and wipe the disk; does it happen two times, better use a new hard disk - or similar advice applies.) It depends on the requirements. Sometimes it's good, sometimes bad, and sometimes everything altogether... How many fingers? ;-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
