[H-GEN] partitioning again

[Robert Brockway]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Robert Brockway <robert at blake.humbug.org.au>)

On Tue, 11 May 1999, Anthony Towns wrote:

> > If this is the case, then is it indeed better to just use a single
> > partition for each disk (and maybe even md technology)?
> 
> Multiple partitions also let you switch between have 2GB for Windows,
> 2GB for Debian to 1GB for Windows, 1GB for RedHat, 1GB for Debian,
> 1GB shared /home, and so on.

Sorry, my bad.  It didn't occur to me that anyone would have a non-unix OS
on the box in the first place.
:)
 
> Partitions also let you do things like mount /usr read only; or not worry
> about having other people put so much stuff in their home directories
> that /var/log fills up.

That is a good point but few ppl end up mounting /usr ro (as it is
supposed to me) else the apt-gets fail because you forgot to remount it
before proceeding.
 
> ...especially when you've got hard drives that have somewhere between
> 100 and 1000 times the size of your average file free even at 95%
> capacity. (200kb -> 20/200MB = 5% -> 400MB/4GB drives)

I usually drop mine to 1% reserved for this reason :)  5% dates from an
era when drives were much smaller than they are now.
Cheers,
	-Robert

--Robert Brockway B.Sc.  Email: robert at blake.humbug.org.au
                                robert.brockway at uq.net.au
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