-----Original Message----- From: dballester(a)kernpharma.com [mailto:dballester@kernpharma.com] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 5:25 PM To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com Subject: Re: Fewer partitions are better (Re: Disk Layout/Partitioning Practices) Hi: I understand your point of view but I disagree with you. I'm sysadmin and I NEED to have system data and user data in three or more physical partitions ( at least /boot, / and /where_user-app_data_is ). The reason is disponibility. I'm totaly agree with LVM and RAM reasons that you exposed but having all data in / is dangerous. Think about a damaged filesystem. In parititioned systems, if the damaged filesystem is user data or /boot, I can unmount it easily, repair it, and mount it again. If all system except /boot are in /, I need to shutdown the machine, startup in 'recovery mode', repair and start machine. In this machine, for example we can have, internal dns, dhcp server, cups ( printing ) and samba server. Using different partitions, samba user data can be unmounted, and printig, dns and dhcp will not be affected. With only / I can have all people in company stopped for a while. In the other hand, if the computer is for personal use, It's logical to have all in /, no problem :)