Bob S wrote:
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 08:46, Per Jessen wrote:
Jonathan Arnold wrote:
Ah, okay. The Release Notes now offer two workarounds for this problem and I'd be pretty optimistic that an even better solution would be offered for this by the time 11 rolls around. Although you have to admit, "limited" to 15 partitions isn't something very many people would run into. I would have to agree - maybe someone who's playing around with all sorts will have a need for that many partitions, but for an every day working environment, I use no more than three.
HiPer,
Welllll....with these new huge discs, it can be a problem. I run three distros 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. 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. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) 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: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org