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Why create many partitions?

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Mar 15, 202611558 views
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I have noticed that when installing Ubuntu some people create multiple partitions for directories. Like one for root, one for home, one for boot. What is the advantage to doing this over installing them all on one partition, assuming there is only one hard drive?

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There are several reasons: System robustness. If you have /home on a separate partition from /, then a regualr user can't fill up the / filesystyem, making it unusable for the rest of the system. Backups. It makes it easier to back up entire partiti…

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