Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Wednesday 2007-10-10 at 10:24 -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
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.
I don't see why we should put everything in /.
Not saying you should, just wondering why you wouldn't. Seems to be much less complicated that way.
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.
How do you install half a dozen OSes in the same disk, without doing partitions?
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