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Why partition a Lunux system?

Lamar Thomas

2004-01-23, 7:21 pm

In this day of 80+ GB IDE HDs why should anyone partition the drive into
more then one partition like: (/, /boot/, /usr, /usr/local, /home, /etc,
/opt)? What is the benefit? Why not just / and swap? It seems like it's
just a hold over from the days of smaller HDs. Any feedback?

Thanks,

Lamar