[Gllug] partition table screwup

Anthony Newman anthony.newman at uk.clara.net
Tue Nov 1 13:00:13 UTC 2005


Minty wrote:
> 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.

There's nothing misguided about it if the machine in question is not 
immediately accessible, it's the middle of the night, and the / 
partition is full and your machine has fallen over. If, say, just /var 
is full, you can still do something about it. I would regard it as 
standard practice.

Ant

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