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.
If you want to be compliant to the UEFI spec, the partition holding your EFI binaries must be formatted as a file system related to FAT (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition). This is not something you want for you system drive, so a separate partition makes sense.
/ and /boot are (arguably) all you need on a single disk system
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.If you want to be compliant to the UEFI spec, the partition holding your EFI binaries must be formatted as a file system related to FAT (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition). This is not something you want for you system drive, so a separate partition makes sense.