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Re: my 2 questions...
Biener Ariel wrote:
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> Umm, I disagree. Having experience on running Unix servers on a large
> scale, having one partition is bad. You thrash it, you're Linux is gone.
> There are some other things that come to mind. Moreover, spreading
> partitions across disks is a very good idea, having the / + swap on one
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> The last part was far off the subject, it just came to mind, anyway, at
You are off-topic from the first sentence.
I agree with everything you say, but you are saying it in the
wrong context - for a newbie with 700Mb to partition and installing
Linux for the first time your message is of little use (but he would
better keep it for times when he knows about Linux enough to
understand it to its full extent, and when he have more than one
part of a disk to play with).
> Ok, one last thing. If any of you ever used BSDi, you might have noticed
> something called mfs (memory file system). It's used instead of /tmp, i.e.
> there's a memory file system mounted on /tmp. This speeds up some things,
> one of them is X. While Linux has no such thing, it does have support of
> Ram Disks. I have played with making a RAM disk, making an ext2 partition
What's the difference between Ram disks and BSDi mfs?
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