Jason Beaudoin wrote: > > <snip> > > > Use all the tricks you can for YOUR solution, including: > > * lots of "small" partitions > > What are the reasonings behind this? > > Thanks for the awesome post! > I think it runs something like this If there is a problem somewhere on the disk, if it's all one big partition, you must fix the big partition if it's lots of small partitions, you fix the one with the problem.
Even worse, in some situations, the difference is between being dead and being somewhat crippled. Methinks there's lots of hard-won experience behind Nick's answers ;)
