Re: Patititioning hard drive

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu>]

* Mario Vukelic (mario.vukelic@chello.at) spake thusly:
> On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 01:14, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> 
> > Hmm. More like 5MB for /boot and 10GB for /. 
> 
> Ooops. Of course. My multi-partition setup confused me
> 
> > A separate partition for
> > users' data may not be a bad idea, but if you do regular backups that
> > doesn't really matter.
> 
> Don't know, does a /home partition on the same disk buy you much? I can
> see its value if you have it on a second disk, but on the same?

What you get is the ability to wipe & reinstall the system 
without touching user data. That's nothing to do with 
perfomance.

Dima
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