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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Why have multiple partitions?

  • Reduce the risk of system failure in case a partition becomes full. Runaway processes or maniacal users can consume so much disk space that the operating system no longer has room on the hard drive for its bookkeeping operations. This will lead to disaster. By segregating space, you ensure that things other than the operating system die when allocated disk space is exhausted.
     
  • Encapsulate your data. Since file system corruption is local to a partition, you stand to lose only some of your data if an accident occurs.

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