Should I split a big (8TB) backup disk into more than one partition, or not?

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Six of this, ½ dozen of the other.
Four trillion bytes, 8 trillion bytes.

Unless you have a file larger than 4TB, I say split it.

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020, 05:42 Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> I am in the process of setting up a new backup system to replace an
> existing one whose 3TB disk drive is over 50% full now.
>
> I have bought an 8TB disk drive for the new system, the system boots
> and has its OS on a separate drive (i.e. the 8TB drive will be purely
> for backup, no boot partition, no /usr, no /home).
>
> I'm wondering if there's any advantage to splitting the 8TB into a few
> separate partitions as opposed to one big partition.
>
> Obviously one big partition is more flexible in that all the spare
> space is available 'everywhere' so that pushes towards one big
> partition.
>
> I guess separate partitions might be said to be 'safer' if something
> goes wrong, a corrupt partition wouldn't lose so much data.  However,
> unless one duplicates data across partitions I'm not convinced this is
> a big advantage.
>
> As you can see I'm leaning towards one big partition, can anyone see
> any major disadvantages?
>
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