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[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:

> One of the mains reasons of having many partition is damage
> contention, like the partitions on a ship. If you have a bad failure,
> the damage, or the worst damage, is limited to a partition. I have had
> my day saved more than once when I had a partition fully and
> irrecoverably lost. If I had everything on a single partition, I would
> have lost everything!

I have never heard that reasoning before, but I guess you could be
right - nonetheless, if I was worried about disk-failure, I'd buy a
second drive and set up a RAID1. 



/Per Jessen, Zürich

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