On 04/13/2011 02:00 PM, Gene Poole wrote: > 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 This is the best argument I have seen so far against lumping /usr into / partition. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
