On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 22:18 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Well, you have a passion for partitions that I do not have. > Partitions have existence due to two things > (1) limited addressing ability in the BIOS > (2) desire to run multiple OS on the same disc I'd add to that list: - ease of data backups - ease of operating system upgrades - containment of runaway process consuming filesystem resources - granularity of filesystem integrity checks - granularity of different raid choices I still find that creating many partitions (I use 8 plus swap) makes for easier administration, as long as you plan the partition sizes carefully. Cheers, Ben
