[Gllug] What are the best practices for Linux partitioning & Mount

nk oorda nk.oorda at gmail.com
Fri Mar 2 11:12:59 UTC 2012


On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:38 PM, t.clarke <tim at seacon.co.uk> wrote:

> With regard to disc partitioning, something else to consider when creating
> partitions is what you are going to put on them....
>
> For example, if you have a lot of important data that changes very
> dynamically,
> then despite having RAID of one sort or another you really need to back
> that
> data up frequently to other media,  be it CD, DVD, external usb disc, tape,
> whatever.
>
> Having that data on a separate filesystem can speed up the time taken to
> backup considerably,  especially if you do a partition-image copy using dd
>
> Tim
> --
>


Thanks Tim

Most of the servers are web server having apache/tomcat running.
all of our hardware is with RAID 5 configured.

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