Re: Floppies - Actual Question

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Floppies - Actual Question
Date	2025-09-29 14:15 +0200
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On 2025-09-28 12:08, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> writes:
>> Le 27-09-2025, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> a écrit :
>>>     Well, partitions can be used for "organization"
>>>     purposes, which can be useful.
>>
>> Give me a real example in the real world. On a personal computer, I
>> don't see any reason to have more than three partition: one for Linux,
>> one for the swap and one for the UEFI which requires a FAT partition.
>> And for the swap partition, I'm even not that convinced that it's better
>> than a swap file. I'm certainly not convinced by the /home partition for
>> example. If I want organization, I'm using folders: they are way more
>> flexible than partitions.
> 
> Agreed, for organizational purposes, partitioning is thoroughly inferior
> to a directory/folder.
> 
> There are some niche use cases:
> 
> * As a means to have different filesystem-level policies. An extreme
>    example is a tmpfs, which doesn’t survive a reboot, but filesystems
>    can also differ in encryption choices, quota enforcement, atime
>    policy, robustness policies, etc.
> 
> * For integration with other parts of the system. Boot chains often need
>    a partition of a specific type (and perhaps with restrictions on disk
>    location) which isn’t suitable for general use.
> 
> * As a means to isolate a badly behaved application or user which
>    consumes storage without bound. It can be allowed to fill its
>    partition without impacting anything else.
> 
> * As a means to isolate user data from an OS install, allowing the OS to
>    be replaced without forcing a restore of the user data from
>    backup. Most people have better things to do than reinstall their OS
>    but there seems to be a subset of hobbyists who like to regularly
>    change OS.

Some database software writes data to a non formatted partition. Hum, 
not only databases.

> 
>> But here we are speaking about floppies, so we are speaking about a way
>> to exchange data between computers. So, what example can you give me
>> which explain the usefulness of partitioning a floppy?
> 
> I’ve never heard of anyone partitioning a floppy. They’re already tiny,
> it seems like a waste of space.

Agreed. The table is almost as big as the floppy.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
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  Re: Floppies - Actual Question Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-09-24 05:06 +0000
    Re: Floppies - Actual Question Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-24 05:43 +0000
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                Re: Floppies - Actual Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-28 15:36 +0100
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    Re: Floppies - Actual Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-24 11:45 +0100
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