Re: RH 3.8 only one partition

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:30:51 -0700, ton de w wrote:

Hello,

Have recently been handed a few PCs each with a 72 GB scsi disk running
RH 3.8 ES.
And exactly one partition.
I was expecting / and /boot at a minimum. Is having just one partition
OK? I suppose it does reduce the chance of running out of space in a
partition - currently only 8 -10 GBs are used but there must be a
downside(?).

TIA

Ton

It will work but it's a bad idea. At the very lease / and /home should be
separate partitions so that you can upgrade the OS without having to blow
away user data. 8G is a good size for / with everything else in /home.
.

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