Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!gatech!udel!law From: law@udel.EDU (Jeff Law) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Re^2: HP 7958S disk question Message-ID: <22672@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 28 Aug 89 12:25:44 GMT References: <239@bnrunix.UUCP> <7540036@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM> Reply-To: law@udel.EDU (Jeff Law) Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 26 In article jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes: >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. also partitions help separate users. specifically we tend to partition undergrads, grads, faculty/staff, administrative users into different partitions, that way people can only blame their peers (or themselves) for a lack of space, it also prevents a single user from sucking up ALL available space (and we have users that would if they had access to more media) Jeff of course if you have and use quotas this doesnt make a whole lot of difference -- University of Delaware PHONE: (302)-451-8005 or (302)-451-6339 ARPA: law@udel.EDU, UUCP: ...!!udel.edu!law