In message <199908050022.RAA08233@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca>, John Nemeth writes:
>     Although, b is traditionally used for swap, it is in no way
>reserved.  You can put swap anywhere you want (including in files) and
>you can use b for anything you want.

Oh, cool.

>     I'll agree with this.  Once upon a time you had to use multiple
>disks simply due to their small size.  But, with modern disks you no
>longer need to use multiple disks (unless you have really huge storage
>requirements or want to do so for performance or reliability reasons).

That's a good summary of what's changed.  Partitions are very convenient
to me from an admin standpoint, and I doubt I'll be putting a second drive
in my laptop...

-s