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On Sat, 5 Jul 2025 16:38:34 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

> 	Sometimes that works out well but often it does not. Some 
distributions
>   take over the drive as a single partition which many find
> disadvantageous in
>   the long run.  For example will your backup tools be able to handle
> the whole disk? I can back up my "/" root partition on a smaller
> partition but am finding problems with my "/home" back up of
> self-created data to other drives.

Gasp! I don't do backups per se. Projects I'm working on tend to be 
mirrored on several machines. Other than that I don't have a lot that 
can't be replaced.