From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Aug 30 10:31:37 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0524D3ADBF1 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2020 10:31:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kremels@kreme.com) Received: from mail.covisp.net (mail.covisp.net [65.121.55.42]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4BfV4S01mNz3XkW for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2020 10:31:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kremels@kreme.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: (very OT) Ideal partition schemes (history of partitioning) From: @lbutlr In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 04:18:48 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: FreeBSD X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3654.0.3) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4BfV4S01mNz3XkW X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of kremels@kreme.com designates 65.121.55.42 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=kremels@kreme.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-0.69 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.93)[-0.933]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; MISSING_MIME_VERSION(2.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[kreme.com]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.95)[-0.949]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.40)[-0.404]; RCVD_COUNT_ZERO(0.00)[0]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:209, ipnet:65.112.0.0/12, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW(-0.10)[65.121.55.42:from] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 10:31:37 -0000 On 28 Aug 2020, at 21:08, Aryeh Friedman = 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