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Re: resize2fs: Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!

by Mark Allums :: Rate this Message:

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Ron Johnson wrote:

> On 2009-07-08 20:23, Miles Bader wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> Hmm, my / is 290MB, though /tmp, /var, /boot, and /usr are all separate
>> partitions.
>
> *Why*?  IOW, what benefit do you derive in 2009 (as opposed to 1989,
> when disks weren't always large enough to hold it all) from splitting
> these out?
>

Protection by isolaton, partly.

Mark Allums


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