One or Four?

[Carl Johnson]

Erich Dollansky <erich at alogreentechnologies.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
>> 
>> > 
>> 
>> So, Polytropon's three choice pattern is good.   Or, I could even
>> suggest just two choices.  
>> 
> yes, three options is ok.
>
>>      [ ] all in one + swap
>>            Create one partition containing all subtrees
>>            plus one swap partition.
>>    
>>      [ ] user-defined
>>            Make your own partitioning selection manually.
>>            (Both number and size of partitions)
>>            with a reasonable way to specify partitions and sizes.
>>            The old Sysinstall way is not bad, but if it obsolete, 
>>            then something as easy that fits the new GPT based system.
>> 
> A normal user will use the first option here and get screwed when the
> file system got affected by a power failure. The second option is not
> an option for a general user. 

What will happen in the case of a power failure?  I just see an fsck
when that happens, and I have been running unix and linux for about 20
years.  I have always had multiple partitions in the past, but for 9.0 I
went with the single partition.

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Carl Johnson		carlj at peak.org