Withe rise of larger and larger storage/disks, partitions are MORE necessary than ever. Of course, you can cut down the number of partitions you use, but that

Withe rise of larger and larger storage/disks, partitions are MORE necessary than ever. Of course, you can cut down the number of partitions you use, but that makes your system extremely fragile. It then becomes a question of 'all or nothing'. I'd much rather have a situation where only one or two partitions are corrupted than have everything fall over.