Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Drew Weaver <drew.weaver at thenap.com> > wrote: >> You can simply create two virtual disks from the single RAID-5 volume. >> >> Create one that is like 500GB for the OS volume and then create a 2nd >> one which uses the remainder of the space. > > But pay attention to where you'd like /var, /home, /opt, etc to live. > You may want to make them symlinks into directories on your larger > volume if they each need space and you don't want separate > filesystems, but then you have to juggle things after the install. > I've long liked having /home, at least, and maybe /opt, where some things install by default, on other partitions than root. With the larger drives we're getting these days, we've modified out kickstart for pxeboot builds to give 500G to /, and everything else as one big partition. I've also considered making that / partition smaller - maybe 250G? or less, since / doesn't really need huge tracts of land... sorry, Monty Python flash there..... In any case, doing it that way lets you do a completely clean install, if necessary or desired. mark, hoping friggin' Nixspam is letting me in today, as opposed to yesterday....