On Mon, 15 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Generaly you split up the directories to different partitions because of
hardware failure tolerances. Ie if you lose the root drive, you still
have all your users stuff safe.
Also it lets you format / and install a new version of the OS and all the
users see is some down time while you install and reboot.
Same with home. Usualy /usr and /home get big in most multi user sites.
If you going to run news groups and/or mail, having the /var on it's own
drive is also good, since you can let it grow without cramming out your
users free space.
> 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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