I'm new to Linux, and to Unix for that matter, and am curious about
partitioning. The Red Hat Linux manual says you can have a simple setup using
just one partition but suggests the following...
- swap partition
- root partition
- /usr partition
- /home partition
The advantage of this setup is not explained. Can anyone explain the advantage
of splitting up a large drive into multible partitions, versus one large
partition. One large partition allowing the op-sys to dynamically allocate
space as needed would seem to be more efficient to me, unless linux has an
allocation scheme similar to DOS where on large disks allocation units get
very large.
Thanks,
Matt
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