[Gllug] partition table screwup

Minty mintywalker at gmail.com
Tue Nov 1 12:26:56 UTC 2005


On 11/1/05, Martin A. Brooks <martin at hinterlands.org> wrote:
> I'm not sure how to answer your question, so I won't try but I'm
> curious: Why on earth do you need to chop up a single disk into so many
> pieces?  Are you multibooting 5 operating systems? :)

It's almost entirely misguided logic, but I think it's an old habit of
having logs on one disk, user space stuff in another, tmp var/tmp in
another, etc such that if one fills up the entire disk doesn't.
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