From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > At first I didn't understand the reason for all the partitions ( > http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2001-01/1654.ht > ml) now I > can't have enough partitions
An example of a problem you can run into with "overpartioning" is being too carve-happy. You've got a finite amount of drive space, so slicing it up all over the place means that partitions have to be limited to what they get. You add a partition, you've either got to add drive space to it or borrow it from somewhere else. People who don't partition appropriately (plan!) end up hitting 100%+ space usage and b0rk. That was an argument at my last job as for why we had to have a single, monolithic root partition on our systems. We never ran out of space on our smaller partitions, but we got no advantages from segmentation either. I endorse the OpenBSD suggested layout. DS
