F.G.Knuts wrote:
Le Mercredi 14 Janvier 2004 06:16, Russ a écrit :
HI All,
When I was dealing with Mandrake, they suggested using different partitions for /, /usr, and /home. SuSE puts it all on one big partition. Is there some reason for that? I was just wondering because I may be forced to reinstall this thing again which would mean all my settings are toast.
If multiple partitions are the way to go, is it possible to get /usr and /home together on one partition?
Maybe you can imitate freeBSD tree structure in which /home is a link to /usr/home During installation, create a /usr partition and what you wand, but no /home partition. When instalation completed, move /home in /usr and create link from /usr/home to /home. I don't attempt this manipulation on runing system, and my /home partition is too big to enter my /usr !!
Franz
With large disks, even Sun have largely phased out chopping them up into smaller disks and symlink hell - space ending up somewhere else. At least AIX with smit got it partly right as you can grow a partition dynamically. I've found that a rogue IDE controller has no respect for partitions and when a HD goes bad, it's bad, so I have on a 160 Gig HD, a / and a swap partition. When I ask guys why the multiple Linux partitions, I've yet to get a coherent answer. Still either way won't have you foul of the DMCA - at least not yet. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.