[ale] one or many...

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> ...partitions that is.
> 
> OK, a swap partition is nice to have, but what does everyone think of 
> having everything else in a single big partition (assume Desktop PC) 
> versus a separate / /usr /boot /home /var, etc.

By making / a separate partition:

You protect your / from being filled up by logs or stupid users.  Makes 
things a bit easier when backing up individual partitions.

At least put /var /home on different partitions.

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