[Gllug] Disc partitions

[Dylan]

On Sunday 12 October 2008, Chris Bell wrote:
> ...
> As an example I have a HP dual processor server with several
> 9.1GB SCSI drives. Some information about splitting / into different
> partitions is available, but which can safely be placed on other discs
> without booting problems?

Well, it's partly going to depend on the functions you have in mind. A machine 
with no graphical desktop is still only going to need a small installed 
footprint.

As to what can be shifted off to other physical drives, I've never had serious 
issues partitioning off /home /opt /tmp /usr and any service specific data 
(ftp space / web pages etc.) And the only time /var has been problematic on a 
separate file system was when a system suffered a catastrophic failure so not 
sure that counts!


There is also RAID and LVM of course.

Dx
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