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

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 09:16:02PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> What on earth are you going to fill an 8T backup drive with?
> 
Incremental backups from a number of systems:-

    My desktop machine

    My Laptop

    My Wife's Laptop

    The Raspberry Pi DNS server (not much space for this)

As I said the existing backup box with a 3TB drive is around 50% full,
it has backups from various systems (e.g. old laptops) from quite a few
years back.  I want to continue what that system has on it.  I was
recently able to find pictures that my daughter had lost from an
around the world trip she did in 2009.  I have E-Mails archived that
go back into the 1990s.

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Chris Green