That looks fine for embedded systems or maybe some end-user systems, but doing that in a server context would be scary. The original filesystem hierarchy was designed so that &#x2F;usr, &#x2F;etc, &#x2F;bin, and so on would have their own partitions and in the event that something tried to eat the filesystem, you might still be able to boot into single user mode and repair the damage. I&#x27;ve had to do this on a handful of different servers where &#x2F;usr is boned and won&#x27;t mount, but I still have enough stuff available that I can fix it.<p>Plus there are a handful of tools with smart option that take advantage of the multiple partition approach, like rm and rsync&#x27;s --one-file-system option.