ON Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:59:35AM -0600, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > I'm doing some shuffling of some systems, and I've got a question. > I know *HOW* to partition drives, but frankly I'm finding partitions > to be more of an asset than a liability. > > The reasons I have so far that justify creating a partition are: > > 1 Boot partitions (multiple OSs, or in the case of Alpha, some > need to see a FAT partition with certain BIOS/bootloader > combinations. > > 2 Need for multiple fs. If you *need* a disk of fs <x>, sure. > > 3 Simple "hardware quotas". 4. Different mount options, such as read-only 5. Different filesystem parameters 6. (/ only) Consistency and speed of recovery in the event of a crash. -- Michael