[plug] Disk partitioning

[Jonathon Bates]

> Is there anyone still beavering (yes I know Leon and scribe are out there) 
> that can tell me if I've done a bad, bad thing. I've got a new 60 giggle 
> bite drive for a new Linux only box that has a swap partition and a TheRest 
> huge partition. Should I have fractured this to multiple partitions for
> 
> 1. safety,
> 2. management,
> 3. so I don't have to stare at a bad block read check for a very long time ?

I have always believed that if you have a large drive, that you partition
it down to a more managable size.
And I do believe there are some exploits with large drives being
unparitioned.
So I would suggest having / /tmp /home /var on different partitions.

Cheers
Batesy