Andreas Leitner writes:
> Even if you have several partitions, a root process should be able to
> access all of them. So there should be no difference if you have only one
> partition or several.
It is very unlikely that a runaway process, root or not, would be writing
to more than one partition.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Aurelio Turco wrote:
> 1: A runaway root process fills up the disk.
> (Will I not be able to get in as root and
> kill the offending process?)
Not always. It could be absorbing vast amounts of processor power as
well.
> 2: The filesystem becomes damaged.
>
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:38:50AM +1300, Adam Warner wrote:
| On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 01:16, Andreas Leitner wrote:
|
| > Yep, the idea is good. But in practice how much space do you give /home
| > ? I hate it when I ran out of disk space, even though there would be
| > plenty.
|
| The question is
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
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 01:16, Andreas Leitner wrote:
> Yep, the idea is good. But in practice how much space do you give /home
> ? I hate it when I ran out of disk space, even though there would be
> plenty.
The question is how much do you give the operating system :-) Everything
else is /home.
S
On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 14:03, Adam Warner wrote:
> I like to have two partitions: one for my data (/home) and one for
> everything else (and a third for the swap file, and a physically
> different hard disks for backups). Such a small number of partitions
> might make me a heretic :-)
>
> There are
I like to have two partitions: one for my data (/home) and one for
everything else (and a third for the swap file, and a physically
different hard disks for backups). Such a small number of partitions
might make me a heretic :-)
There are clear advantages to this setup:
1. I can backup/restore th
On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 12:28, Aurelio Turco wrote:
>
> If I install Debian on a single partition,
> 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.
> (Wi
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