Re: why make partitions?
On Tuesday, June 01, 1999 at 14:46:01 -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
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> The best reason I can ever come up with for creating separate partitions is to
> allocate space which can't be spared: eg. create a separate /home so users with
> accounts on the system can't screw up the system by filling up the disk or so that
> runaway log files can't fill up / and screw things up.
IMO, the best reason to make partitions is so the KERNEL will be
guaranteed to be located below cylinder 1024 for /sbin/lilo. Otherwise,
later kernel installations will run the risk of making your system
unbootable from those kernels (or at all even.)
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