[wplug] Partitions

Brian Sammon Brian_Sammon at yardarm.fac.cs.cmu.edu
Tue Aug 7 15:24:00 EDT 2001


> My Theory is that if something currupts your files, , your HD is
> broken. THen you have more important things to worry about, like

I'm sure there are people here that could provide horror stories of files 
(and filesystems) getting corrupted by OS problems, even when the hardware 
is fine.

Multiple partitions is mostly good for making sure that if you lose a 
whole filesystem (i.e one whole partition) you don't lose everything.






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