The reason for partitions becomes clearer & clearer...
 

Trusting the gurus on this, I decided to partition my linux a while back. But, I didn't know what or why (for sure) that/what I needed so I made /, /usr, and /home...just to be safe.

Today I had an epiphany about /var, so I have made that. Perhaps one day soon I'll see a need for a /tmp partition, and create one. right now I don't so I have it on the / (root) partition.

My epiphany about /var came when I noted that Mandrake Backup was placing the backups on /var...and I had been directing them to a partition I made called /backup...

Now I have moved all the stuff on /backup to /var/backup...and renamed /boot to /var...moving the appropriate files.

Of course *I* didn't move them...Mandrake did that for me when it saw what I had done.

Man!...I love Mandrake more & more as time goes on. :)

I could have done this all myself but Mandrake just did it automatically. :) :) :) :) :)

well, that 's the beauty of mandrake, and that's the robustness of linux

Re: The reason for partitions becomes clearer & clearer...
 

Sure, but what's for fun left ;)