The best reason I can ever come up with for creating separate partitions is to
allocate space which can't be spared: eg. create a separate /home so users with
accounts on the system can't screw up the system by filling up the disk or so 
that
runaway log files can't fill up / and screw things up.

Remco van 't Veer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is the any technical reason why I should fdisk an extra IDE hdd and
> not mkfs the whole thing at ones?  Apart from: "hdb: unknown partition
> table" at boot time everything works perfectly..
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Regards,
> Remco
>
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