On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 12:29:51PM -0400, cheo7811@yahoo.com wrote:
Stefan:
What advantage does it have to partition the disk that way instead of:
/ /boot swap
1. If one partition gets badly corrupted, you haven't lost the whole FS. 2. If one partition fills up completely (as it has in this case), it doesn't fill up the whole disk - /var, /home, /tmp are likely to grow with less control; if something goes nuts and starts writing loads of logs to /var/log, you don't end up with the system dying because there's no disk space anywhere. 3. It's easier to move bits of the filesystem around onto other (new, larger) disks. -- David Smith Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com STMicroelectronics Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk Bristol, England