why ubuntu LTS installs all in a single partition?

Mauro Sanna mrsanna1 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 2 18:14:39 UTC 2013


On 2 August 2013 17:02, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2 August 2013 11:41, Mauro Sanna <mrsanna1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is it a good thing in your opinion?
>
> Yes it is.
>
> Terabytes of disk cost as much as an inexpensive restaurant meal now.
> There is no reason for fooling around, wasting time and effort, on
> multiple partitions any more. My home server has a single partition
> for root *and no swap partition at all*. It has 3GB of RAM - it
> doesn't need swap, but if it ever does, I have installed ``swapspace``
> so it will create a swapfile on demand.
>

You don't use swap on servers too?
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