[luau] Partitions

Vince Hoang luau at ml.altern8.net
Wed May 7 21:53:00 PDT 2003


On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 07:47:50PM -1000, Matt Darnell wrote:
>    When installing RH 8.0 you can have the Disk Druid auto
>    configure the partitions. It configures so many partitions.
>    Is that a relic to when hard drives were 6MB and you had to
>    worry about logs filling up your user space?

Mostly a relic, yes. It was done mostly to help prevent / from
filling up.

>    Is something else I should be thinking about? Two partitions
>    seems adequate, one swap and one with a / mount point.

It is adequate. You might consider additional partitions if you
want certain mounts different from /, such as a read-only or
striped filesystem.

-Vince



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