On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:56:02AM -0600, Joel Rosenberg wrote: > 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? > Perhaps in /home, but another poster mentioned /var... -- 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