RE: Partitions

[Paul Sims <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

You can live with just 1 partition (/) and have a swap file. Slower than a
dedicated partition there's the possibility of a failed disk write
corrupting real data. You can have / /swap, which keeps swap access in
it's om space so cant't do anything fatal to the main filesystem but with
everything else sharing the same partition. Putting /swap on it's own disk
keeps swap access out of the way of data access on the same drive.

All other directories hang from /, and can be allocated their own
partitions at your pleasure. It's a good idea to give /home it's own
partition so it doesn't get frazzed if you need to reformat/reinstall. The
same extends to /usr, /usr/local, /var, /opt.

-----Original Message-----
From: Foz [SMTP:99969628 [at] mmu.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 12:42 PM
To: sheflug
Subject: Partitions

sheflug - http://www.sheflug.co.uk

Hi,
Continuing on the notion of partitions, there must be a reason
for the partitions to be ordered in such a way, can someone
actually tell me why?

Thanks

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