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In git.unix.linux Chris <conlan@hempseed.com> claimed:
> Thanks for the reply

> I'm not sure of the technologyor how to do it, but is this how it's done?
> Primary Master:
>             main partition1: LILO
>             main partition2: WIN95

Your primary master should have LILO on the MBR (master boot record).
Otherwise, you won't be able to boot Linux.....(don't worry, you can 
still boot windows).

> when you said: "don't lump the whole filesystem into one partition" did you
> mean to make more partitions from the Linux one?

He really meant make a bunch of Linux partitions. Like this

/dev/hda1              45837   16767    26703     39%   /
/dev/hda3             171775  138076    33699     80%   /var
/dev/hda5             121951  110413    11538     91%   /usr
/dev/hda6             147330  112069    35261     76%   /home
/dev/hdb1            2012567 1907686      862    100%   /opt/hdb1
/dev/hdb2              46664   37712     6543     85%   /opt/hdb2
/dev/hdb3            2012598 1880250    28328     99%   /opt/hdb3
/dev/hdb4            2020364 1909129     6813    100%   /opt/hdb4

or like this 

/dev/sda1             126895  104457    15886     87%   /
/dev/sda3             507583  418632    62737     87%   /usr
/dev/sda4             326143  210238    99061     68%   /home
mousetrap:/opt         45837   16767    26703     39%   /opt
mousetrap:/disc        45837   16767    26703     39%   /mdisc
//TWONKY/MP3's       1304128 1299776     4352    100%   /remote/twonky

(it's always good if you can use someone else's hard drive :)

> What is the reason for this?

The idea is that if one of your filesystems goes bad, you don't lose the 
entire system. It makes backups easier. If you have one big partition, 
it's possible to hose things by mail-bombing it. If you have /var on 
a seperate partion (or even better, /var/spool/mail), a mail bomb 
won't take the system down.

There are many reasons to do it. It makes setting things up a little harder, 
but makes other things easier down the road.....

> PS: Do you know of any good documentation for a beginner explaining this?

http://www.debian.org has a debian install guide you really should look 
through (no matter what distro you have, it explains things you should 
know that apply to Linux in general). It tells you the hows and whys of 
partitioning (and gives a few examples).

-Hat