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On 2020-11-24, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:01:35 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> > Can you imagine an fstab with 22 partitions? Doesn't bear thinking |
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>> > about. |
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>> Yes. I have one with 12 and often wish it had more. |
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>> It comes in handy when you need to test drivers and applications |
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>> against different distros, and your customers use 4-5 different |
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>> versions of RHEL, 4-5 different versions of Ubuntu, a couple random |
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>> versions of SuSe, Mint, Arch, etc. You could of course, have 12 (or |
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>> 22) different hard drives that you swap in/out of the machine, but |
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>> that's tiresome and expensive. |
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> But actual partitions? |
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Yes. Each with a separate Linux distro installed. |
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Perhaps you can do that with a volume manager instead of partitions |
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(using partitions has worked fine for the past 20 years, so I've never |
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looked into it). |
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