[CentOS] A question about RAID and partitions

From: "Brent L. Bates"

>     If you really want separate partitions for all of those directories,
> why
> you would I don't know, create separate partitions on each drive and RAID
> the
> partitions as needed. (...)
>

/boot
/
/home
/swap
/tmp
/var

As far as I know, that kind of partitioning scheme is fairly common with
servers.
You wouldn't want your users filling up the whole disk and bringing the
system to a crawl or halt, or the log files from the web server doing the
same, would you? So, give them separate spaces that cannot be trespassed!

Some distributions of Linux automatically create this partitioning scheme
when you choose Instalation Type=Server.