Re: why make partitions?
This extra hdd is mounted on /home. :)
My concern is the the integrity of the filesystem and hdd driver in
this case. Does a filesystem like this use the location the partition
table uses? If so how big are the odds that Linux will choke on a
corrupt (unknown) partition table?
I guess it's not harmful but bad style..
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 14:46, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> 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.
>
> Remco van 't Veer wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is the any technical reason why I should fdisk an extra IDE hdd and
> > not mkfs the whole thing at ones? Apart from: "hdb: unknown partition
> > table" at boot time everything works perfectly..
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Remco
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