On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:59:35AM -0600, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > I'm doing some shuffling of some systems, and I've got a question. > I know *HOW* to partition drives, but frankly I'm finding partitions > to be more of an asset than a liability. > > The reasons I have so far that justify creating a partition are: > [snip] Another good reason I haven't seen yet is that if say /home/ has its own partition, a user app going nuts and filling up the partition won't trash the machine. Nice segmentation there. -- johntrammell at yahoo.com | 78BA 706C C5F9 9321 E7C4 933B D063 907B A88E 924B Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org