Do people not create partitions any more? I thought this was sysadmin 101 for, like, forever. Databases, web servers, etc. should never ever fill up the entire

Do people not create partitions any more? I thought this was sysadmin 101 for, like, forever. Databases, web servers, etc. should never ever fill up the entire disk. Separate partitions for boot, swap, /, /home, /var, and /tmp are the minimum common sense partitions.