On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 01:41:08PM -0600, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > I don't think the backup thing is wise -- put it on other media. And > I *do* know what distro, etc. Anyway, with multiple disks, you can > backup and reformat faster. > > Partitions: 0 Multiple disks: 2 My points on Why Partitions are Good Things have all been made already, but I haven't seen anyone point out that your method of evaluation and scorekeeping is unfair. You asked why you would want to have multiple partitions, and that is the question that people are answering, but your 'multiple partitions vs. multiple disks' scorekeeping is really 'multiple partitions (on a single disk) vs. (multiple partitions on) multiple disks'. Multiple partitions are multiple partitions, regardless of whether they're on the same physical device or not. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss