[Techtalk] partitioning - pro, con

[Mani A]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Miriam English <mim at miriam-english.org> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> 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?

It depends on the type of file system being used too. Performance of a
FS like ext3 does not scale as well as JFS. The best is to have many
partitions using different FS and from 18GB to 90GB with 3 primaries.
You can always use LVM.

Best

A. Mani


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A. Mani
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