Advice wanted on disk partitions

[Neil Rickert]

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.
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