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Why partition a Lunux system? |
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01-24-04 12:03 AM
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
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Re: Why partition a Lunux system? |
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01-24-04 12:03 AM
Lamar Thomas wrote:
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> 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
>
>
"Linux Partition HOWTO" is your friend.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/
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Re: Why partition a Lunux system? |
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01-24-04 12:03 AM
Lamar Thomas wrote:
quote:
> 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
>
>
"Linux Partition HOWTO" is your friend.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/
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Re: Why partition a Lunux system? |
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01-24-04 12:03 AM
Lamar Thomas wrote:
quote:
> 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
>
>
"Linux Partition HOWTO" is your friend.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/
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Re: Why partition a Lunux system? |
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01-24-04 12:03 AM
Lamar Thomas wrote:
quote:
> 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
The immediate advantage is if all data is contained in one large partition,
and that partition get damaged, i.e. power failure whilst using your
computer all the data in that partition may not be recoverable.
If you have separate / and /home and /boot partitions and power failure or
hard drive damage occurs, it may be that only one partition is affected.
Another advantage to partitioning is that you can try out different
operating systems, I do not hold the record here, but I have SuSe 8.2,
Mandrake, Slackware and Red Hat and a small windows partition all on a 30G
hard drive. Each linux system has its own / and /home partitions and I use
a common /boot and /swap partition for all systems with a common /share
partition for easy distribution of files.
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Re: Why partition a Lunux system? |
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01-24-04 12:03 AM
Lamar Thomas wrote:
quote:
> 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
The immediate advantage is if all data is contained in one large partition,
and that partition get damaged, i.e. power failure whilst using your
computer all the data in that partition may not be recoverable.
If you have separate / and /home and /boot partitions and power failure or
hard drive damage occurs, it may be that only one partition is affected.
Another advantage to partitioning is that you can try out different
operating systems, I do not hold the record here, but I have SuSe 8.2,
Mandrake, Slackware and Red Hat and a small windows partition all on a 30G
hard drive. Each linux system has its own / and /home partitions and I use
a common /boot and /swap partition for all systems with a common /share
partition for easy distribution of files.
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Re: Why partition a Lunux system? |
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01-24-04 12:03 AM
Lamar Thomas wrote:
quote:
> 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
The immediate advantage is if all data is contained in one large partition,
and that partition get damaged, i.e. power failure whilst using your
computer all the data in that partition may not be recoverable.
If you have separate / and /home and /boot partitions and power failure or
hard drive damage occurs, it may be that only one partition is affected.
Another advantage to partitioning is that you can try out different
operating systems, I do not hold the record here, but I have SuSe 8.2,
Mandrake, Slackware and Red Hat and a small windows partition all on a 30G
hard drive. Each linux system has its own / and /home partitions and I use
a common /boot and /swap partition for all systems with a common /share
partition for easy distribution of files.
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Re: Why partition a Lunux system? |
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01-24-04 12:03 AM
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:57:52 GMT, Lamar Thomas wrote:quote:
> 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?
Just depends on your backup media, and usage requirements.
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
best partition layout in the first box
*linux* in the Newsgroup, pick English
Results 1 - 10 of about 827. Search took 1.31 seconds.
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Re: Why partition a Lunux system? |
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01-24-04 12:03 AM
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:57:52 GMT, Lamar Thomas wrote:quote:
> 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?
Just depends on your backup media, and usage requirements.
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
best partition layout in the first box
*linux* in the Newsgroup, pick English
Results 1 - 10 of about 827. Search took 1.31 seconds.
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Re: Why partition a Lunux system? |
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01-24-04 12:03 AM
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:57:52 GMT, Lamar Thomas wrote:quote:
> 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?
Just depends on your backup media, and usage requirements.
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
best partition layout in the first box
*linux* in the Newsgroup, pick English
Results 1 - 10 of about 827. Search took 1.31 seconds.
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