On Jun 29, 2006, at 3:00 PM, John Brahy wrote:

> At first I didn't understand the reason for all the partitions (
> http://archives.neohapsis.com/archiv...1-01/1654.html)
> now I
> can't have enough partitions

The main advantage of partitions is that you can isolate file systems
that
are growing and move them to a new slice if necessary without them
disturbing
other file systems.

The most common extra partition must be /usr/local since one tends to
build
open source there.

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