Re: curious

wouter
Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:16:10 +0100

Because I believe it makes no sense.

It's useful on a multi-user server where you want to partition 'home directories' away from 'system root' and/or 'shared network directory', since you don't want your server to die a horrible death from disk fill because someone thought it'd be nice to share 25TB of warez on the shared network directory.

Since my laptop is mine and nobody else's, having that protection serves no useful purpose. It's better not to partition it, so that I don't waste 7G because I have 500M on one partition, 700M on a second, 300M on a third, and no space to put this DVD image that I want to write to disk.