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- From: jco@spchp12.BBN.COM (John C. Orthoefer)
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- Subject: Re: 9.0 is coming, are you ready?
- Date: 17 Aug 92 01:17:28
- Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., 10 Molton Street, Cambridge, MA
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- In-reply-to: xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu's message of 6 Aug 92 15:05:07 GMT
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- RE: it's better not to partition disks since you run out of room on
- /usr and start softlinking things in.
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- The reason you want to partition disks is as a firewall. without it,
- someone dumps a file into your /tmp (typicaly on root) that fills your
- disk. You run out of disk space, and splash unix doesn't like the
- idea of no disk space.
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- Also another thing that you can use partitions for is making an extra
- root area for crash recovery (yes I know about recovery systems under
- HP-UX) but I think the sun system of using /tmp is much simpler,
- doesn't require you to do anything ahead of time and just plain better.
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- My vote is put the partitions back, if you don't want to use them then
- you can still make one partition the size of the disk.
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- jco
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