ON Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:59:35AM -0600, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: 
> I'm doing some shuffling of some systems, and I've got a question.
> I know *HOW* to partition drives, but frankly I'm finding partitions
> to be more of an asset than a liability.
> 
> The reasons I have so far that justify creating a partition are:
> 
> 1	Boot partitions (multiple OSs, or in the case of Alpha, some
> 	need to see a FAT partition with certain BIOS/bootloader
> 	combinations.
> 
> 2	Need for multiple fs.  If you *need* a disk of fs <x>, sure.
> 
> 3	Simple "hardware quotas".

4. Different mount options, such as read-only
5. Different filesystem parameters
6. (/ only) Consistency and speed of recovery in the event of a crash.
   
-- 
Michael