Looking ahead to doing hdd install of knoppix and was wondering if I can get away with just 2 partitions, a swap partition and another partition for everything else? I never understood why all of those different partitions were needed for linux installs. Is it just for performance? The reason I want just 2 partitions is that then I can easily create a backup partition of the main partition using something like partition commander. Then if and when I screw up the os, it can easily be restored from the backup. This worked well in my experimenting with windows os's, can't see why it wouldn't for linux.