Translations:Handbook:Alpha/Blocks/Disks/17/en


 * Administrators can choose the best performing filesystem for each partition or volume
 * The entire system cannot run out of free space if one defunct tool is continuously writing files to a partition or volume
 * If necessary, file system checks are reduced in time, as multiple checks can be done in parallel (although this advantage is more with multiple disks than it is with multiple partitions)
 * Security can be enhanced by mounting some partitions or volumes read-only, nosuid (setuid bits are ignored), noexec (executable bits are ignored) etc.