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["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Wednesday 2007-10-10 at 01:23 -0400, Bob S wrote:

> > 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.

> 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

Exactly. And /boot, and windows, etc. Then, you could dedicate partitions 
to certain programs to block them if the go berserk from claiming the 
entire disk. Traditionally, databases were given their own partition. I 
have one for vmware. Also, you can have other partitions for replication 
backup. There are many uses for as many partitions as you like.

It's simply a different strategy from the one for all.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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