why ubuntu LTS installs all in a single partition?

[Elden Fenison]

I like having one partition for root and another for home. That way I can
wipe the OS and install something completely different without having to
backup and restore 400GB of data. It's quite convenient.


On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2 August 2013 11:41, Mauro Sanna <mrsanna1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is it a good thing in your opinion?
>
> Yes it is.
>
> Terabytes of disk cost as much as an inexpensive restaurant meal now.
> There is no reason for fooling around, wasting time and effort, on
> multiple partitions any more. My home server has a single partition
> for root *and no swap partition at all*. It has 3GB of RAM - it
> doesn't need swap, but if it ever does, I have installed ``swapspace``
> so it will create a swapfile on demand.
>
> Multiple partitions are 1990s thinking. There is no reason any more.
> One big partition is much easier.
>
>
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