Why bother partitioning?
This is an extract from the Debian installation instructions.
"Most people choose to give GNU/Linux more than the minimum number of
partitions, however. There are two reasons you might want to break up
the filesystem into a number of smaller partitions. The first is for
safety. If something happens to corrupt the file system, generally only
one partition is affected. Thus, you only have to replace (from the
backups you've been carefully keeping) a portion of your system".
Suppose that you didn't partition as the instructions recommend and had
just one large / partition with all the usual file
systems in place. Couldn't you make backups of critical file systems
just as if they were on their partitions? And, couldn't you then
restore file systems just as described in the instructions?
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