Advice wanted on disk partitions
Neil Rickert
rickert at mp.cs.niu.edu
Mon Jan 14 23:53:43 AEST 1991
In article <457 at nwnexus.WA.COM> wjones at nwnexus.WA.COM (Warren Jones) writes:
>We have a single hard disk on our system (an RS/6000 under AIX 3.1).
>Can anyone explain the rational for dividing this disk into several
>partitions, and then re-joining them (via mounts) into a single
>directory structure?
As soon as someone accidently (or deliberately) runs a looping program that
completely fills a partition you will discover the benefits of multiple
partitions.
At the very least keep a partition with essential system stuff, and space
for log messages, which is separate from the partitions containing user
directories.
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Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert at cs.niu.edu>
Northern Illinois Univ.
DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940
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