On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:56:02AM -0600, Joel Rosenberg wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 09:59, John J. Trammell wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:59:35AM -0600, Phil Mendelsohn wrote:
> > > I'm doing some shuffling of some systems, and I've got a question.
> > > I know *HOW* to partition drives, but frankly I'm finding partitions
> > > to be more of an asset than a liability.
> > > 
> > > The reasons I have so far that justify creating a partition are:
> > > 
> > [snip]
> > Another good reason I haven't seen yet is that if say /home/
> > has its own partition, a user app going nuts and filling up
> > the partition won't trash the machine.  Nice segmentation there.
> > 
> > -- 
> Don't disk quotas do a better job of that?  
>  

Perhaps in /home, but another poster mentioned /var...

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