On 10/15/07, Jerry Geis <geisj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In the past I basically used 3 partitions for hard drives. > > partition 1: was all centos (typically 20G) > partition 2: was swap (typically 2*RAM - 2G) > partition 3: was everything else I wanted, needed or carded about, > database files etc... > > Now with really big drives coming along 750G and 1T > partition 3 is getting big. Except for time to format is there a problem > with that??? > > I'm not really to fond of trying to break up partition 3 but I am just > wondering if there is a major > reason why I should not be partitioning my systems this way? > > My systems are really just running my application (that runs on linux). > It is not a huge email server, > not a huge apache server. Just running linux with 100% uptime (sweet). > Again just my application > running an a stable platform. My application has databases that grow > big. My database is not MySQL > it is ISAM based. > > Thanks, > > Jerry Jerry, Just an idea, what about using LVM as a partition manager and ext3, reiserfs, jfs or xfs where you can extend partitions on the fly (no unmounting so no downtime for DB's etc). Works fine for me with 2 TB partitions (not needed to go beyond 2TB yet..) on SAN storage. / Nicolas _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos