BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Adding a hardware swap partition
De:       Josef M”llers
Data:     Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:02:06 +0100
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On 3/15/26 15:02, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 15/03/2026 13:25, druck wrote:
>> The whole separate partition thing was way back in the days of 
>> unreliable filing systems on small discs. It just isn't needed these 
>> days when you can just have everything on one large partition and not 
>> have to try and work out the high water mark needed for each part.
> 
> Whilst that is true, there are newer reasons for partitioning..
> 
> - You cant fill a root partition with user data if that is on a separate 
> partition.

I'm helping a local IT person with Linux (he's a Windows person) and we 
have had a notebook from a customer which didn't start the GUI for 
exactly that reason: she had kept files and large files and huge files 
in her $HOME and at one point the partition was 100% full, no space left 
for the GUI temporary files.
My friend sold her a new disk and I partitioned it such that there is a 
root partition and a /home and we haven't heard from her since.

Just thought I'd share some hands-on experience.

Josef

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