Partitioning *nix

[W. Wayne Liauh]

One of the biggest differences between Linux and Winx, as far as 
desktops are concerned, is that you can put the /home "folder" in a 
separate partition in Linux and the user will not notice any inconvenience.

In Winx, where the home folder sits in the C driver, because we are 
always constantly adding new things into the home folder, file 
fragmentation will always be a big problem.
This can cause frequent crashes and severe degradation in performance.


Dusty wrote:

>And on Solaris it is /export/home.  There are many differences, but as long as you understand the basic concept of why you are breaking out certain parts of the file system into seperate partitions, then you will be able to do it on any system.
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>>I believe the default partition for user files in Red Hat is /home, not 
>>/usr/home.
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