[CentOS] Booting Software RAID

[John R Pierce]

On 1/30/2014 12:02 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Lists<lists at benjamindsmith.com>  wrote:
>>> > >
>> >And for clarity's sake, I'm not suggesting a literal partition /os and
>> >/data, simply that there are areas of the filesystem used to store
>> >operating system stuff (EG: /bin, /boot, /usr), and areas used to store
>> >data (EG: /home, /var, /tmp), etc.
> The division is not at all clean, especially under /var.  You've got
> stuff put there by a base OS install mingled with an unpredictable
> amount of logs and data.

indeed.  and its not unusual to discover a year after deployment that 
you need signfiicantly more space in /usr or whatever.   I generally use 
LVM for my boot disk



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john r pierce                                      37N 122W
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