[Gllug] starting X
Bruce Richardson
brichardson at lineone.net
Thu Jul 19 10:08:18 UTC 2001
On 7/19/01, 8:43:24 AM, home at alexhudson.com wrote regarding Re:
[Gllug] starting X:
> Partitioning, to me, is a poor solution for every problem which it's
used to
> solve. Originally, partitioning was more to do with making disk spaces
that
> the BIOS and/or OS could handle in terms of size when big disks came
along -
> it's a bodge. Partitioning different areas to allow different rights
makes a
> little sense
Which I regularly use it for. If there were an alternative I'd be
happy to know about it. The ability to specify access restrictions
(noexec, ro etc) for directories rather than partitions would be a
Good Thing.
--
Bruce
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