>You will have to excuse me... For the next week or so I will be >posting
>questions to the list about questions that I'm unable to locate the >answer
>to on the web... I'm trying to put a reliable web page up, and I want to
>make sure my Info is correct.
>Anyway...
>The Redhat book says the following:
>Although you can install Red Hat Linux in a single large partition
>(subject
>to any of the partitioning considerations we've mentioned so far), it's >a
>much better idea to split things up a bit. We recommend the >following
layout
>as a compromise between single-partition simplicity, and multi->partition
>flexibility...
>What is the "technical" reason for doing this (Splitting up a partition
>that
>is). Does it make it faster? Thanks for the info...
>Bill Bushong - Concord, NH
One reason: If you screw up your system (like your mother pulling the plug
:)) you don't have the entire filesystem currupted. It also has an advantage
that you can specify disk-quota's one a file-system bases.
Igmar
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