[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, David Jericho wrote:

> > Yep, ok, 1 partition per OS, but other than that, my original question
> > still stands - do we need to bother with partitioning anymore, or is it
> > now a false idol :)
> 
> For servers and the like, I'm still fairly religious with respect to 
> paritioning. The last thing we want is someone DoS'ing the filesystem
> and stopping a root login.

So far I've been religios about it too :)  But if ide really is
dynamically allocating stuff all over the disk then we are kidding ourselves :)
 
> For a home PC, I gave up a while ago with the 7 partition thing for unix. 
> I just got sick and tired of having to shuffle data around when I ran out of
> space when all I wanted to do is try something out. Maybe a seperate
> partition for /home, but everything else is on the one.

blake has 8 partitions but all other boxen have 1 each :)
Cheers,
	-Robert

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