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- From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Some interesting Novice Questions (not found in FAQ)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.183453.19306@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 18:34:53 GMT
- Article-I.D.: serval.1992Nov5.183453.19306
- References: <dingelde.720952611@jocki>
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- In article <dingelde.720952611@jocki>, dingelde@igd.fhg.de (Dennis Dingeldein) writes:
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- |> 5) Is it a good idea to use one singe efs-partition of lets say 200 MB
- |> for all the Linux stuff ? Are there disadvantages for this efs solution
- |> (efs=extended file system) compared to a set of "usual fs" partitions ?
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- Please never, ever do this to yourself. Give you a hint. I had one of my fs,
- /users, was trashed a week ago. But I could still manage to recover from my
- / and /usr fs's. Think about you have /, /usr and /users in one fs and that fs
- is trashed.
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- H.J.
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