On 04/13/2011 02:47 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > 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. Is there a statistic in terms of numbers, as to the the deployments of linux in servers vs. workstations? -- 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
