Partitioning your drive is something that basically everyone on Linux does but what purpose does it actually serve and is there any reason why it might be better to avoid creating partitions in your d...
I would much rather split out /home if I’m going to split anything, so it can go through a future reinstall more smoothly. With /var being a more distant second candidate, because I’ve been burnt on several occasions by various programs eating up all disk space somewhere under it.
/ and /boot are (arguably) all you need on a single disk system
Unless you need to dual-boot.
But why
/boot?I would much rather split out
/homeif I’m going to split anything, so it can go through a future reinstall more smoothly. With/varbeing a more distant second candidate, because I’ve been burnt on several occasions by various programs eating up all disk space somewhere under it.