On Thursday 11 September 2008, david@xxxxxxx wrote: > while I agree with you in theory, in practice I've seen multiple > partitions cause far more problems than they have prevented (due to the > partitions ending up not being large enough and having to be resized > after they fill up, etc) so I tend to go in the direction of a few large > partitions. I used to feel this way until LVM became usable. LVM plus online resizable filesystems really makes multiple partitions manageable. -- Alan
