-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHDJTatTMYHG2NR9URAn78AJ4ml1Wn3yvYIlKQMLwTsgXOH3mp/QCeLbGg 2zGnj5bFv2pVGaHUQTscwx4= =Q3VF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org