Lets not forget that by using partitions we have more inodes for the over all
system.

"Eric J. Pinnell" wrote:

> What's funny is why we still make partitions in the first place.
>
> Once was a in the unix world time when disk drives were really small
> (100MB) and really expensive.  So we had to partition.  You couldn't get
> all the stuff on one disk.
>
> Now... with cheap HD's and fast access times there is no need to split
> it up...
>
> ...although always keep you home dir on a seperate partition so when you
> upgrade you don't over write your stuff.
>
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