Per Jessen wrote:
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.
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