On 11/24/20 10:41 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:01:35 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
Can you imagine an fstab with 22 partitions? Doesn't bear thinking
about.
Yes. I have one with 12 and often wish it had more.
It comes in handy when you need to test drivers and applications
against different distros, and your customers use 4-5 different
versions of RHEL, 4-5 different versions of Ubuntu, a couple random
versions of SuSe, Mint, Arch, etc. You could of course, have 12 (or
22) different hard drives that you swap in/out of the machine, but
that's tiresome and expensive.
But actual partitions? Without some sort of volume management? I have 27
btrfs subvolumes on one system, but I wouldn't want to do that with
partitions. And you don't find yourself wishing for more with a volume
manager, just create whatever you need... which is how I reached 27.
I only have two or three such distros I use for testing, but I have each
in a VirtualBox machine. For me, spinning up a VM is easier than a real
reboot.
