On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 at 07:11, arian <deb...@semioptimal.net> wrote: > Hi Charles, > > why is your system spread across this many partitions? Having / + /home ( > and where appropriate /boot or /boot/efi ) is far less cumbersome as you > only need to maintain 2-3 partitions, for instance a reasonable amount of > free space on them. On btrfs, zfs you can even go to 1-2 partitions, as you > put /home on a subvolume. > > If you don't have requirements for this kind of setup, I side with Sven: > repartition. > > regards, Arian > > The Debian Wiki, circa 2009 when I last built a Debian system from scratch, used to advise this kind of setup for performance and backup convenience. I have almost the same partition structure (although my disks, note disks plural) are a lot bigger so I don't have space problems.
I did originally have a root partition that was too small, thanks to the same bad advice in the wiki, and had to repartition some years ago to fix it. Mark
