> 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
Granted, but this is only an issue for FAT-based filesystems. Even
FAT32, though to a lesser extent than FAT16. It's not an issue for
inode-based filesystems like ext2. (And I'd assume there isn't anyone on
this list running UNIX off of a UMSDOS partition. :) )
Filesystems that keep track of free space in a bitmap (as ext2
does) do need one additional bit of extra space in the bitmap for every
block of additional disk storage, but this a negligble concern.
Matt