RE: Partitions Compression

[Stephen J. Turnbull <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> ps == Paul Sims <psims [at] lombard.co.uk> writes:

ps> I used (almost) deliberately. Most Linux hobbyists/students
ps> (and most sysadmins for that matter) will never use more than
ps> a handful of the 64 logical partitions available, and so I
ps> stand by my original statement. Yes, the limit is finite but
ps> almost inconsequential.

By that logic, the limit of 4 hardware partitions is almost
inconsequential, since most professionals, let alone
hobbyists/students, never use more than 2 hardware partitions. Only a
very tiny minority of truly crazed fanatics use Linux, after all.
Real people use Wintels and Macs.

:-)

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