Need partitioning opinions.

[Bill Heiser]

In article <673 at hitachi.uucp> jon at hitachi.UUCP (Jon Ryshpan) writes:
>root and everything else.  Under BSD, you can back up by partition;
>this can speed backups up if you put static stuff on some of the
>partitions.  But this doesn't apply to backups under sysv.

Why do you say this can't be done under sysv?  How about ffsdump, rdump (or whatever), or "find . -mount" ...

>
>If you are afraid that your news spool directory can get out of
>control, you *may* want to put it on a seperate partition so that it
>can fill its own partition and not the whole drive.  But I don't
>recommend this.

Why do you not recommend having a separate partition for news spool?



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