One other reason to at least put /home on another partition. Say its middle of December. Say you just wanted to do your wife a favor and install the StarOffice 6.0 Beta. So you think to yourself you will just remove the 5.2 and put 6.0 on. Big mistake... Darn GUI un-installer removed the X-Mass letter to everyone. Big oops. Well if you have /home on a separate partion you could get the file un-deleted if you can go to single user as root and use some of the utils to un-delete the file (found that Midnight Commander was excellent for pulling many files back from the dead, but the key bindings were a bit of a hurdle to overcome.) So that could be a reason. Not that anybody would delete an important file and want it back later :-) Kelly Black KB0GBJ On Saturday 12 January 2002 11:59, you 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". > > I see no reason to divide the drive otherwise.