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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!