[CentOS] A question about RAID and partitions

Wed May 23 17:22:50 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

Brent L. Bates wrote:

>      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.  :-)

That's probably true for single user machine or special-purpose ones 
that handle a few big files, but if you are running services that have 
busy logfiles etc. you will end up making other things wait while the 
disk head keeps bouncing back and forth between the logfiles and the 
work you are trying to do.  Putting /var on a separate drive (drive, not 
just partition...) to eliminate that head contention always seemed like 
a good idea to me.  And separating /home from the head(s) handling /tmp 
and swap is good for the same reason if you have user activity.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com