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Subject: Re: Did we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the
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On Thursday 07 July 2005 18:27, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> 1Gb just because it's peanuts to a 200Gb disk, and I don't bother with
> /tmp separately.

I use one because, by default,  / is mounted without soft-updates. It is 
possible to turn it on, but for the sake of a few hundred MB it seems 
sensible to go with the default of a separate partition.