Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 08:09:49 -0500 From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: (very OT) Ideal partition schemes (history of partitioning) Message-ID: <40C4967F-19E2-4815-ABD2-7539C5AE8A79@kicp.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <AF89C1A4-FC9C-4065-B571-067BC2D0F69D@kreme.com> References: <CAGBxaXkf53K4EHtq9cDaRm3MOZZixyBq-aQfZ7upHo-wUwrmCg@mail.gmail.com> <AF89C1A4-FC9C-4065-B571-067BC2D0F69D@kreme.com>
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> On Aug 30, 2020, at 5:18 AM, @lbutlr <kremels@kreme.com> wrote: >=20 > 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) >=20 > 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. >=20 > Historically they were quite important because partitions could fail = without the disk failing, Would you mind to elaborate how specifically partition could fail = without the disk failing. Valeri > 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 >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 > The other cats just think he's a tosser. --Neil Gaiman >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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