gevisz wrote: > > But what are disadvantages of not partitioning a big > hard drive into smaller logical ones?
If your filesystem becomes corrupt (and you are unable to repair it), *all* of your data is lost (instead of just one partition). That's the only disadvantage I can think of. I don't like partitions either (after some years, I always found that sizes don't match my requirements any more), and therefore, on my new server, I didn't create any other partitions than "boot": home01 ~ # df -h -T Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 xfs 17T 14T 2.9T 83% / devtmpfs devtmpfs 10M 0 10M 0% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 3.2G 644K 3.2G 1% /run shm tmpfs 16G 512K 16G 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda2 ext2 124M 46M 72M 39% /boot ACDFuse fuse.ACDFuse 100T 284M 100T 1% /mnt/acd /dev/sdb1 ext3 2.7T 707G 1.9T 28% /mnt/toshiba home01 ~ # Backup of important and/or secret files goes to an external USB hard drive (sdb1) which is formatted with ext3 for maximum compatibility (every other Linux can read this without kernel hacks); backup of not-so-secret files goes to Amazon Cloud Drive (acd) or some other "cloud"; unimportant files (videos which I have on DVD or BD anyway, or can re-buy) just aren't backed up. -Matt
