RE: Partitions Compression

[Robert Speed <nospam [at] viclabs.co.uk>]

On 21 Jan 00, at 19:09, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> :-)
I know, I know - but I couldn't resist.
This 'ere machine at work has NT, DOS ( Win 3.1) and Suse 6.3
on it, with all the different / /var /tmp (etc) paritions for Linux setup
as logical within the one physical.
NT and DOS both have physical paritions.

Admitedly the test box next to it only has Linux on the one drive
(17GB IDE) and I 'think' (checks.....yep) there's two phyicals, yet
DOS on two SCSI drives with physicals all round.
(old 1542 card, so I get better performance from the IDE, so that's
why Linux is on there...)

My main PC at home runs 95 with two physical partitions, and
SuSE 6.1 on another.
(RH 5.1 was on there too, but I got rid of it)
My other PC has NT server, Slackware (3.5) and DOS in different
phjysical paritions.
And one of my RISC-PCs (Yeah, ACORN !!!!) has a RISC-OS
partion, a Linux partion, and a RiscBSD (NetBSD) as hardware -
with Linux and BSD being split into different logicals...

And my server has two drives split, errrr I'm not sure, and I can't be
bothered to dial into it to see.
So I'm going to shut up now and do some 'proper' work...

Rob S.
Vickers (Laboratories) Ltd.
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