> > >> md0 /boot sd[ab]1 > > >> md1 / sd[ab]2 > > >> md2 /usr sd[ab]3 > > >> md3 /var sd[ab]4 ... > There are other reasons to use multiple partitions. Having /home as a > separate partition, e.g., allows one to reinstall without copying the data > off to another machine. It also prevents a user from filling up the root > fs, which often has bad consequences. The same goes for partitions for > /tmp and/or /var. one very serious problem with this approach is that each filesystem will probably be journaled, which means that it'll spend a lot of time shuttling the heads between journal and data areas. if you have activity on /, /usr and /var at the same time, your heads will do little other than rush madly around. in cases where this can't be avoided (for instance, using quotas to eliminate the user-fills-partition problem), you can often improve things markedly by turning on noatime/nodiratime. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
