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From: wehr@fmsrl7.UUCP (Bruce Wehr )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: BSD and HPUX, The Questions Continue...
Message-ID: <41676@fmsrl7.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 91 19:43:03 GMT
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Organization: Ford Motor Company, Scientific Research Labs, Daerborn, MI
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jenings@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Byron Jenings) writes:
> 
> I'm curious, why do you want partitions?

When I first started running news several years ago, it was on a
9000/350 with just one disk. I was still getting used to administering
news (and realizing how much space it could take) and I was constantly
being greeted with "write failed: / file system full" messages in the
morning on particularly heavy days.

If I could have created a separate partition for /usr/spool/news, news
may have crashed, but the rest of the system would have been OK.

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