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From: Hal MacArgle <haltec@kvinet.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: partitioning
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:04:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040126150458.GA559@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401260017210.9502@ppg_penguin>

On 01-26, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 
>  If you're going to separate /usr, and the reasons for doing so probably
> don't apply to many people here, even 3GB should be too much.  Depends,
> of course, on exactly what you put there, but assuming you don't install
> a _lot_ of things you aren't going to use then 3GB is more than enough
> for a _full_ system (except /home).
> 

	Care to comment on the reasons for putting /usr in it's
separate partition??

	For the many personal and home office work stations wouldn't
that be overkill and not within the KISS philosophy??

	Just curious. Cheers. <grin>

    Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0   (2.4.20)
		Utrum Per Hebdomadem Perveniam
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-26 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-25 13:37 partitioning S. Barret Dolph
2004-01-25 16:08 ` partitioning chuck
2004-01-25 16:42 ` partitioning Ray Olszewski
2004-01-25 16:53   ` partitioning S. Barret Dolph
2004-01-26  0:27 ` partitioning Ken Moffat
2004-01-26 15:04   ` Hal MacArgle [this message]
2004-01-26 17:16     ` partitioning Ken Moffat
2004-01-27 19:16       ` partitioning Hal MacArgle
2004-01-27 20:19         ` partitioning pa3gcu
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-07 14:32 Partitioning Mike Turcotte
2005-04-07 16:02 ` Partitioning smertz
2005-04-07 16:50   ` Partitioning James Miller
2005-04-07 14:18 Partitioning smertz
2002-08-10  0:58 Partitioning Natarajan K
2002-08-09 15:52 ` Partitioning Ray Olszewski
2002-08-09 18:31 ` Partitioning Riley Williams

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