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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Need partitioning opinions.
Message-ID: <FN39=LC@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 30 Jan 91 15:43:47 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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Partitions are also useful as firewalls for containing disk corruption.
This has become less important as the systems get more reliable, but I'm
still glad they're there.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  `-_-'  peter@ferranti.com
+1 713 274 5180.  'U`  "Have you hugged your wolf today?"