To expand a bit... > Having one big partition may be OK for a home system, but for a system > that may be on the internet (or multiuser) there are many good reasons > for having multiple partitions. The main ones being security and system > integrity. With one big partition you run the risk of filling up the > partition and making your system unusable. This can easily be done by > filling up /tmp, /var, etc. Making these separate partitions reduce the > risk of bringing your system down if one of these fill up. Keeping /home on a separate partition allows you to redo your whole system (e.g., remove one distribution and install another) without losing user data. Same applies to things like all your non-pkg installations in /usr/local/. Then there's backup. It's a easier to design and implement backup schedules for different parts of the filesystem that have different requirements (e.g., /home changes much more frequently than /usr) if they're on different partitions. I don't know what else. I'm in Texas at the moment, and so I can't think. Andy