I used to wonder the samething. When I started using Linux, I always wonder why partition a disk to use the same OS on all the partitions. Then I made a big boo boo and hosed system and re-installed all 500MB of downloads again, that took over a week to get!! So, I decided to try the partition and I even dedicated partition to only hold .debs and .tars and all downloaded stuff like that. So then nexted time I hosed my system, I used the floppies to install the /root system and bam. /usr was the and all the link where fixed and I had my same set up in 20 minutes that took weeks to build.
I know this didn't answer the technical reason, but it sure is great if your prone to experimention and complete system hosing. Rod.... > -----Original Message----- > From: Jens B. Jorgensen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 3:46 PM > To: Remco van 't Veer > Subject: Re: why make partitions? > > 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 > > > > -- > > Kosto World Trade Center anthrax plutonium SEAL Team 6 Nazi nuclear BATF > > Ft. Meade Uzi FNLC thrust aanslag CRI Marxist Soviet assassination > Kennedy > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
