Keeping the user data independent of the operating system. There will be one partition with the operating system on it, and one with the user data. Also if there is a problem with one file system, this does usually not affect the other file systems.
Using a boot loader it is possible to run many operating systems on the same computer. This is known as multi-booting.
Usually each partition contains exactly one file system.
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