Identify and describe three reasons for partitioning a hard drive (HDD).

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Partitioning divides a hard drive into logical sections; each one is a contiguous section of blocks treated as a separate physical drive. In addition to improving system performance, other reasons for partitioning an HDD are as follows:
·      Installing multiple OSs - You can install multiple OSs on a single computer or install different OSs on separate partitions to run them more efficiently.
·      Storing different file systems - You should store file systems of different types on separate partitions so that if a file system becomes corrupted, it's confined to only one partition. Other partitions aren't affected, so the data stored on them is safe.
·      Limiting data growth - You should assign separate partitions for different areas of openSUSE Linux file systems because some processes consume a large amount of disk space. As a result of a lack of disk space, bookkeeping operations, such as writing to log files, can't be performed. For instance, if you assigned the /home and /var directories to different partitions, and the partition allocated to the /home directory has run out of disk space, logging processes could continue to write data to log files in the /var/log directory because it's on a separate partition from the /home directory.