Re: [aclug-L] Newbie Partitioning Questions

[Wayne White <wwhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:04 PM 3/21/1999 -0600, you wrote:
>> 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.

This is something that I would rather enjoy seeing covered at a meeting some
time. I think we did several months ago, but I was really green then and it
didn't really mean a lot. After having worked with linux a bit now, I think
I could make much better sense of the information presented with a second 
presentation. So John, add a night to cover the file system, what goes where,
why it goes there and how much space (relatively) each partition might best
have. I know it would help me a bunch. I've installed so many times that I
am soon to do it for the final time and would love to set up my partitions
as they should be for maximum effeciency.

Thanks,

Wayne

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