Re: From Slackware to Debian

[Will Lowe <harpo@udel.edu>]

On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Lukas Eppler wrote:

> I am relatively new to linux. I am asking back: What is bad about one big
> partition? I have it like that, I am flexible as hell, and have no clear
> problems with it. 

Well,  if you wanted to export part of your drive (say /usr) to another
machine so that machine didn't have to have all that stuff installed
locally,  it's tough.

Also,  some people like to mount directories such as /usr,  (soon /etc),
read-only so that they can't get accidentally fuggled with by doing screwy
things as root,   etc.

I do it because if something goes wrong,  I can fsck one part of the tree
(one partition) much faster than I can fsck the whole darn thing.

                     					Will

			        harpo@udel.edu
			       lowe@cis.udel.edu
			http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/
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