On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 09:59, John J. Trammell wrote: > 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. > > -- Don't disk quotas do a better job of that? -- ------------------------------------- There's a widow in sleepy Chester Who weeps for her only son; There's a grave on the Pabeng River, A grave that the Burmans shun, And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri Who tells how the work was done. -------------------------------------