the problem with using just one partition, is that if your system goes
down ungracefully (i.e. power fails, someone hits the switch, etc etc)
it's going to take one *heck* of a long time for a larger drive to fsck.
Also, if you're doing anything that might cause a file system to fill up
(say, you have a mail server -- /var/spool/pop will fill up..or often
/var/log on a firewall or other copiously logging machine) and you want
everything else to be able to continue saving data. (This is largely
covered in your comment about multi-user production systems...but for the
edification of the original asker :) )
mostly I guess there's nothing wrong with using one partition for
everything on a desktop machine that is just that. When I first started
using linux, I did that (actually, my current desk top still does that..it
has three partitions -- linux, swap and win95 .. I may nuke the win95
partition though...it was originally set up for game playing, and I need
the space on the work side of my machine now.) It's just klutzy, and you
pay in some minor performance issues that really don't matter on a
desktop, but really do matter in production servers of any type.
Vinnie
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On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Jeff Douglass wrote:
> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 08:28:14 -0500 (EST)
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> IMHO for the average single user Linux system one partition and a
> swap partition suffices provided you want to install only one OS
> on the hard drive. Foresight when slicing up a large HD can save
> you aggravation later if you are entertaining multiple OS's. If
> not then one partition will work. In the past, smaller hard disks
> were frequently allocated to a single filesystem. That's still
> the case for multi-user production systems and I favor multiple
> partitions for this type of system.
>
> -- Jeff Douglass
>
> On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Casey Bralla wrote:
>
> > I'm confused about partitions. Unless I want to isolate & limit user
> > file storage, why not just let the whole disk be 1 partition? (except
> > for a separate swap partition).
> >
> > What is the disadvantage of having one single large partition?
> >
>
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