hard drive partitions

[Jonathan Claxton]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Rick Rosinski wrote:

> A long time back, I thought I was ingenius by creating separate partitions, 
> 650 mb each so that I can back them up to cd rom, thinking that I could 
> manage them better.  But, I keep running out of space on each partition, 
> having to make symlinks to directories that I copied to partitions with space 
> to spare.  I am thinking about discarding this whole approach, and to just 
> use one single partition for all programs, and to keep all data on a separate 
> large partition.  What are the advantages and disadvantages of using huge 
> partitions as apposed to having them broken down into smaller partitions?
> 

I LONG time ago, I decreed that on my Linux systems, I made two root
paritions so that I can install a new release of RH while keep the current
running release. Then I created another partition just for my home
directory called "/home1/...." This way I can just throw away the old
"root" partition whenver I switch to the new release. 

Since then, I modified the layout by making a partition just for /boot
which can be used with whatever the current "root" partitions and keep the
current kernel.

This way.. if the root goes into the black hole... no matter, just
reinstall and I would not loose my current data in my /home1/...
partition. Also, makes upgrading MUCH easier!!!

Just my two bits.