Re: RH 3.8 only one partition


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(?).


The downside is that the /boot partition normally is not written to
(except when particular files are updated usually during an OS
upgrade).

This minimizes the chance of a system crash or partition problem
destroying critical files.


TIA

Ton

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