Re: How to partition 300GB hard drive?

On Sep 13, 7:21 am, Josh McKee <jtmc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
Where did you put your users?

I suspect they're in the / partition since /export/home isn't
specifically listed.

That's correct. If I had filtered df per "df -h -F ufs" only
the root partition would have been displayed.

For my development systems for well over a decade I've had
only a single root partition for convenience, and for my
old Sun 3/60 systems 20+ years ago it was a necessity (esp.
when building, say, a complete X distribution (18+ hours)),
though given the size of disks back then on some each major
filesystem had its own disk. One system even had a dedicated
disk for swap.

Circa mid-1980s the largest SCSI disk was a Maxtor XT3380
at 380MB and US$2,500. It boggles my mind that today I can
buy a 1TB disk for less than $200. :-)
.

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