Re: hard drives - upgrades n stuff
Matt McClure (matthew.mcclure@yale.edu)
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 21:45:56 -0400
Shawn Bayern wrote:
>
> What you seem to be calling for is a single large partition. Why make it
> more complicated than necessary? I don't know of any way of getting
> partitions to resize themselves dynamically; that would involve some
> fairly difficult filesystem-level games on top of the magical partitions.
Could someone enlighten me on the advantage of multiple partitions? It
seems that for flexibility, the large partition would always be better.
I assume that I'm missing something though.