If possible, I'd like to jump in on this
conversation about a separate /usr partition. I work for a large
corporation and we run multiple platforms (AIX, HP-UX, RHEL, Solaris) and
most, if not all, of our servers not only have separate partitions, but
separate file systems. If you are using LVM, the use of separate file systems
make for much easier space management ( if /usr starts to run out of space,
we get alerted and all we have to do is extend the /usr logical volume).
On RHEL, the default disk definition is /boot; / (root); and swap. So we
just took it one step further and split up the root directory and
file system. And by splitting it up, you can put the different file systems
on different disk allocations (raid-0; raid-1; raid-5; etc.) depending
on their uses. If you take the default disk definitions and then
add, say, oracle database you get oracle mixed in with the OS. Is
this something you really want?
This also allows you to move file systems
to SAN devices without an outage, under VMware.
Thanks,
Gene Poole
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