> I find it weird that guides like this still suggest seperate root, home, boot and swap partitions. The classic reason is preventing space / inode exhaustion

> I find it weird that guides like this still suggest seperate root, home, boot and swap partitions. The classic reason is preventing space / inode exhaustion of / by user accounts and preventing time of check, time of use vulns. Tough the latter have since been addressed in other ways [1]. There's also a certain amount of convenience and cleanliness to separating system and data that way. 1: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Security#Preventing_link_TOCTOU_vulnerabilities https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Security#Preventing_lin...