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Originally Posted by
dr.house
In the past, there had been a reason for this: the
1024-cylinder-limitation of the bootloader LILO (prior to version 21.x).
There's other good reasons for it, too. Keeping it separate means you can keep it an old-fashioned ext2/3 filesystem, compatible with grub, while you can use whatever filesystem you want for root without confusing grub. It also makes it a lot harder to damage by accident.