[Techtalk] partitioning - pro, con

[Gina Feichtinger]

Hi Miriam,

On 12.10.2008 2:51 Uhr, Miriam English wrote:
> I just bought a 1 Terabyte hard drive [squeals of delight]
> 
> Normally I partition my drives to keep different kinds of data apart and 
> so that I can have small bootable partitions that can't interfere with 
> large data partitions. But I intend this drive to hold just data. Data 
> directories can easily change size dynamically, whereas partitions for 
> different types of data don't change size.
> 
> Anybody know of good arguments why I *should* or *should not* partition 
> the drive into a bunch of smaller areas?
> 
> Just thought I'd see if I was overlooking any good arguments before 
> committing myself to one or the other.

Hm, I haven't seen anybody speak up yet to this topic. Have you considered
using LVM? You could start out with smaller logical volumes and increase
them (and the filesystem residing on top of them) pretty easily, if not "on
the fly" (depending on your OS and FS of choice).

Cheers,

Gina
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