Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

[gevisz]

2016-09-01 11:54 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>:
> On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 11:49:43 +0300, gevisz wrote:
>
>> > If your filesystem becomes corrupt (and you are unable to
>> > repair it), *all* of your data is lost (instead of just
>> > one partition). That's the only disadvantage I can think
>> > of.
>>
>> That is exactly what I am afraid of!
>>
>> So, the 20-years old rule of thumb is still valid. :(
>>
>> > I don't like partitions either (after some years, I
>> > always found that sizes don't match my requirements any
>> > more),
>>
>> And this is exactly the reason why I do not want to partition
>> my new hard drive! :)
>
> Have you considered LVM? You get the benefits of separate filesystems
> without the limitations of inflexible partitioning.

I am afraid of LVM because of the same reason as described below:

returning to the "old good times" of MS DOS 6.22, I do remember that working
then on 40MB (yes, megabytes) hard drive I used some program that compressed
all the data before saving them on that hard drive. Unfortunately, one day,
because of the corruption, I lost all the data on that hard drive. Since then,
I am very much afraid of compressed or encrypted hard drives.

> Neil Bothwick
>
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