Thread: "Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?
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TiagoTiago is offline TiagoTiago
2010-10-12 , 20:04
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#106
Originally Posted by sjgadsby View Post
Installers like Ubuntu's tend to lead in the direction of one big partition, but no, that's not a "Linux thing". Windows 95 may have killed the old MS-DOS "join" command, but in the *nix world, it is normal to spread portions of the filesystem across multiple partitions, drives, and network volumes.
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I think someone (either me or some of you, or perhaps both) is getting things backwards here....

I always thought that using a single partition for the whole physical hard disk, was a Windows thing, and using lots of partitions was a Linux thing; but i could swear someone in this thread said the opposite was what was widely accepted as the norm.
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