Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 19:14:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@federation.addy.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Multiple partitions per disk (was: Writable /usr?) Message-ID: <19980508191417.J12200@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980508043628.5555C-100000@federation.addy.com>; from Cliff Addy on Fri, May 08, 1998 at 04:42:05AM -0400 References: <s551e442.042@wpmail.gbr.epa.gov> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980508043628.5555C-100000@federation.addy.com>
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On Fri, 8 May 1998 at 4:42:05 -0400, Cliff Addy wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 1998 09:20:35 +0930, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: > >> Having many partitions is Evil. It increases the likelihood that you >> will run out of space on one partition while having enough space on >> the disk. > > This is a really simple-minded view of the world brought on by a DOS-only > background. Ah. That must be the problem. Thanks for drawing it to my attention. Maybe now you can explain how it happened to me. > In actuality, multiple partitions, as implemented in fbsd, is > great. This means that when my /var partition gets too full, I can > replace it with another hard drive mounted where the /var partition of the > main drive used to be. Pop in the new drive, copy old stuff over, edit > fstab and I'm done. You appear to be confusing the advantages of mount with the disadvantages of too many partitions. In practice, most people don't have the luxury of replacing a drive with another one. In a more typical scenario, they have two partitions on one drive. One partition is overflowing, the other is half empty. Do you advocate buying a new disk under these circumstances? And what advantage do you have from your two partitions in the first place? > Of course, DOS machines can't even dream of such a thing. In fact, I do know a little about Microsoft. They have (or had) a feature called ASSIGN, which reassigned drive letters. It would appear to do what you advocate. Compare page 1623 of "The Complete FreeBSD", second edition (http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/bsdbook2.htm). Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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