Re: Dual Boot on Sun Blade 100(Sparc)

From: Adrian Moye (adie-news-spam-20030126_at_moye.org.uk)
Date: 05/14/03 

Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 23:05:32 +0100

On Tue, 13 May 2003 17:21:52 +0000, Darren Dunham wrote:

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>> free space - 2.5GB - possibly for linux or something in the future
>> /home 5GB - Shared
>> /space 10GB - Shared
>> /export 7.5GB
>> /var 2GB - Sol 8
>> /opt 5GB - Sol 8
>
> Wow.. Lots of partitiions...
>
> What's the difference between /home, /space, and /export?
>
> Why separate /var and /opt partitions?

I'm fairly new to solars, however with my experience with other unices,
I've found it useful to have multiple partitions. If something happens to
kill the box, such as sudden power failure, or part of the disc goes
"dodgy"(gains bad blocks), what happens then?

is the file system that robust that it doesn't ever have problems with
this type of thing? or are you giving this advise for convenience?

I've currently got my sol9 system installed across 2 discs, 1 for / and 1
for /var. I was thinking of installing and splitting everything across
multiple partitions, is this ill advised?

thanks for your help,

adrian