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What are some of the key advantages of partitioning?

Multi-OS Support - Boot two operating systems requiring two different file systems
File-system Choice - Some file systems may be more suited to certain applications than others
Disk Space Management
Disk Error Management - Allows isolation of a problem, should a partition or file system become corrupt. Titanic style.
Security - Ability to set read-only file systems can add security, or be used for redundancy in the event that data is lost on a duplicate partition
Backups - They work better on entire partitions at a time, so segmenting your space into small, intelligently spaced surface areas allows for more effective backups and management.

Tags: 101.1, fs, hard drives, linux, partitions
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Main topic: Informatics

Topic: Linux

Published: 08.02.2011