Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!mhres!jv From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Re^2: HP 7958S disk question Message-ID: Date: 28 Aug 89 15:25:55 GMT References: <239@bnrunix.UUCP> <7540036@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM> Sender: jv@mhres.mh.nl Organization: Multihouse Gouda, the Netherlands Lines: 19 In-reply-to: diamant@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM's message of 26 Aug 89 04:16:41 GMT In article <7540036@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM> diamant@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM (John Diamant) writes: ... Partitions can cause you to run out of disk space even when the disk has plenty of space (just in the wrong partitions). ... Right. But partitions (or separated disks) can also separate critical filesystems (e.g. /, /usr) from less-critical filesystems (e.g. /usr/spool) thus preventing them to overflow due to erroneous (malacious?) actions which should normally only affect the other filesystems. But of course, this medal has (at least) two sides... Johan -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via internet backbones Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{mcvax,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7, 2803 PL Gouda, The Netherlands phone/fax: +31 1820 62944/62500 ------------------------ "Arms are made for hugging" -------------------------