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. -- Neil Bothwick DOS never says "EXCELLENT command or filename"...
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