Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 04:18:48 -0600 From: @lbutlr <kremels@kreme.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: (very OT) Ideal partition schemes (history of partitioning) Message-ID: <AF89C1A4-FC9C-4065-B571-067BC2D0F69D@kreme.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaXkf53K4EHtq9cDaRm3MOZZixyBq-aQfZ7upHo-wUwrmCg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGBxaXkf53K4EHtq9cDaRm3MOZZixyBq-aQfZ7upHo-wUwrmCg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 28 Aug 2020, at 21:08, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> = wrote: > Also why are partitioned need at all? (both currently and = historically) They are not needed now, and I don't think they provide any benefit, = really. Sure, you can do a multiple OS setup on a single drive with = partitions, but this is quite risky if Windows is involved which is the = main reason people want to do this. It's better to have separated = physical drives. Historically they were quite important because partitions could fail = without the disk failing, and restoring a partition is obviously much = faster than restoring a whole drive. That's not much of a reason now, if = there's some hardware issue with a drive, you throw it out and replace = it as drives do not cost thousands of dollars. (Or at least you take it = out of the role of booting and maybe throw it into a backup rotation). --=20 The other cats just think he's a tosser. --Neil Gaiman
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