[CentOS] Re: A question about RAID and partitions
Scott Silva
ssilva at sgvwater.com
Wed May 23 18:31:51 UTC 2007
Brent L. Bates spake the following on 5/23/2007 8:56 AM:
> I have 3 partitions:
>
> /boot - Because it can't be striped. It is mirrored across 4
> drives on 2 controllers, just so the disk space isn't
> completely wasted. The partitions are there, so I'm
> using them. Each drive is also bootable as I used GRUB
> on each one.
>
> swap - 1 partition on 4 drives on 2 controllers and I just let
> the OS handle the swap space anyway it wants to do and I
> don't use any software RAID options. All 4 partitions have
> `defaults,pri=1' in the /etc/fstab file.
>
> / - 1 partition on 4 drives on 2 controllers all striped
> together as one file system.
>
> I've found over the years any more partitioning than that is just a waste
> of disk space. If I had more partitions, I usually ended up with one
> partition with a lot of excess space and others with not enough. It was just
> easier to have everything together. On the current system we have about 600GB
> of disk space available with only 5% of it used. I'm not worried about
> anything getting filled up any time soon.
> Users who fill up drives get shot and then chastised. :-)
Striping / is just asking for a chance to test how well your backups work if
you have a drive failure.
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