Why partition disks?

[Guy Harris]

>1. Each file system can have at most 65,535 inodes, because the inode
>number is stored in a 16 bit field in the directories.

Speak for yourself.  There exist versions of UNIX with more modern file
systems that have 32-bit inumbers; the original poster didn't specify
what flavor of UNIX they have, so they may or may not have a 64K inode
limitation on their file systems.