On 2020-11-24, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> 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?
Yes. Each with a separate Linux distro installed. Perhaps you can do that with a volume manager instead of partitions (using partitions has worked fine for the past 20 years, so I've never looked into it).
