> On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Matt McClure wrote:
>
> > Could someone enlighten me on the advantage of multiple partitions? It
> > seems that for flexibility, the large partition would always be better.
> > I assume that I'm missing something though.
>
> For personal machines, I don't see any advantage.
The major consideration that comes to my mind is slack.
If you have a single large partition you can end up wasting a lot of
space. If you have a lot of it, then maybe you don't care, but if you are
trying to get the most out of your disk you may want to choose your
partition sizes carefully.
A decent discussion of this topic can be found at:
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/part.htm
-Miles