One of your arguments was to put &#x2F;bin and &#x2F;sbin onto a seperate partition so that if something happens, it’s unlikely that &#x2F;bin and &#x2F;sbin are affected. In reality however, nobody cares about &#x2F;bin and &#x2F;sbin at all.<p>Another argument was more fine grained permission control. You can do that by other means, for example with subvolumes.<p>So, after all, possible corruptions are not alleviated by complex partition struture, or only with a bad trade-off for complexity. Instead, do backups. Easy and reliable. Everbody is happy, without many partitions.<p>Simplicity is crucial and it&#x27;s one thing the free software ecosystem is consistently getting wrong. I see it as the major showstopper for many people to use it more intensively.<p>The filesystem hierarchy is just one culprit, but a fundamental one.<p>Take a look at at some fundamental pure mathematics lectures or books. You can immediately see that this was designed to be as easy as possible. Software must be the same.