On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 15:09 +1200, Tony Wicks wrote:
This is why I've always been opposed to this "over partitioning" that people do. It made some sense when hard drives were 2 gig but now it just causes problems for no tangible gain.
I would disagree with this statement. It made less sense (although IMO it still *did* make sense) because it was so hard to get the allocation % correct and there was very little slop to recover. With larger drives, lots of slop and growth room (could leave unallocated space on the disk: couldn't do that often on the small disks). But what really makes it useful (counter-intuitive, but true IMO) is the availability of LVM. Even considering some of the overlapping functionality, aggressive partitioning with aggressive use of the LVM facilities can yield a lot.
But remember that I'm new to LVM and my opinion should be suspect.
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