On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Aurelio Turco wrote: > If I install Debian on a single partition,
That's the usual case on my personal system, although I don't generally recommend the practice. > what is the worst that can happen, > in the following two cases (the two most > cited justifications for having multiple > partitions): > > 1: A runaway root process fills up the disk. > (Will I not be able to get in as root and > kill the offending process?) I normally can. It's obvious when it happens because things stop working and start complaining, but not so bad that I can't get in as root and fix it with little bad overall effect. > 2: The filesystem becomes damaged. > (Will I not be able run from a rescue floppy > and repair the damage from there?) Whenever my filesystem has become damaged, it's never been such that boot-time fsck (or subsequent fsck from maintenance mode) couldn't fix it. The only times I've needed rescue floppies, the problem's been unrelated to the number of partitions I had. -- Mark
