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Re: Floppies - Actual Question

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Subject Re: Floppies - Actual Question
Date Wed, 8 Oct 2025 14:29:54 -0700
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On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 21:13:01 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> > Having a separate partition with a (vaguely) well-organized
> > directory structure ...  
> 
> You can have the latter without the former. Remember, *nix systems
> maintain a single directory hierarchy, regardless of how the storage
> may actually be partitioned into separate volumes.

Certainly, but keeping it separate allows for some fine-tuning (e.g.
picking a larger inode size for a partition where small files will be
the exception rather than the rule.)

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