[mdlug] Linux Desktops For Sale

[Jonathan Billings]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 03:37:25PM -0400, Garry Stahl wrote:
> Robert, if they are too stupid to understand the concept of hard drive
> partitions, they are too stupid to own a computer and do no damage.  I
> seriously recommend the purchase of a leapfrog or better yet one of
> those boxes office store use to simulate computers in the furniture
> department.

I think that's a bit egotistical.  The reasoning behind drive
partitioning is directly related to several decades of the limitations
on decades of PC hardware.  Windows and Mac users rarely need to think
of partitions, and that's because it's completely transparent to the
user (for the most part).

I wouldn't tell a reasonable Mac/Windows user to get rid of their
computer just because they don't understand the complexities of disk
partitioning.

On a related note...

This did get me thinking, perhaps rather than setting a /home
partition, these systems could just have a /boot, swap and big LVM
physical partition, and then / and /home could be logical volumes.
That way you could resize later and not need to worry about
repartitioning?  This is how I've deployed research systems at a
previous job, when I knew that I might need to resize things later due
to space constraints.

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>