Hi:
I understand your point of view but I disagree with you. I'm sysadmin
and I NEED to have system data and user data in three or more physical
partitions ( at least /boot, / and /where_user-app_data_is ). The reason is
disponibility. I'm totaly agree with LVM and RAM reasons that you exposed
but having all data in / is dangerous.
Think about a damaged filesystem. In parititioned systems, if the
damaged filesystem is user data or /boot, I can unmount it easily, repair
it, and mount it again. If all system except /boot are in /, I need to
shutdown the machine, startup in 'recovery mode', repair and start machine.
In this machine, for example we can have, internal dns, dhcp server,
cups ( printing ) and samba server. Using different partitions, samba user
data can be unmounted, and printig, dns and dhcp will not be affected. With
only / I can have all people in company stopped for a while.
In the other hand, if the computer is for personal use, It's logical
to have all in /, no problem :)
HTH
Regards
David Ballester Montolio
Responsable de Sistemas y Comunicaciones
Kern Pharma, S.L.
www.kernpharma.com
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It may be time to rethink multiple partitions. For legacy reasons,
I build my systems with multiple partitions, but if I had it to do
over again I would probably do it with 3 partitions:
/boot (because it has to be small)
swap (about 2 GB)
/ (everything else, including multiple drives if LVM)
