Re: [aclug-L] Newbie Partitioning Questions

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'd personally leave it all in one big hunk.  I'd also use fat16 so you can

That's a bad idea...

What if you download Netscape 17.6 and it accidentally fills your
partition?  Then your / partition fills, too, which can cause SERIOUS
problems.

Or suppose something bad happens and you have filesystem corruption... if
you have multiple partitions, then the corruption is issolated to a single
partition.  Then you have a much better chance of not losing valuable
data.


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