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Assunto:  Re: Adding a hardware swap partition
De:       The Natural Philosopher
Data:     Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:38:21 +0000
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On 15/03/2026 21:04, Jim Diamond wrote:
> On 2026-03-15 at 11:02 ADT, 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.
>> - You cant e.g. fill /var with e.g. MySQL data if that is on a separate
>> partition..
> 
> Yes, but that has nothing much to do with the OP's plan to put /usr on its
> own partition.  He didn't indicate where /home was going, but if he puts it
> on the root partition, he can still fill that up.  And if /var is on /root,
> also problems.
> 

Agreed


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