[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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