On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 17:00 -0400, 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 Your comments are more relevant to servers than to personal systems in my experience. -- ======================================================================= Give all orders verbally. Never write anything down that might go into a "Pearl Harbor File". ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
