Fewer partitions are better (Re: Disk Layout/Partitioning Practices)

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:25:02AM +0100, dballester at kernpharma.com wrote:
> and I NEED to have system data and user data in three or more physical
> partitions ( at least /boot, / and /where_user-app_data_is ). The reason is

Why have /boot separate from /, assuming a BIOS newer than 1998 or so?

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