Fewer partitions are better (Re: Disk Layout/Partitioning Practices)

Ronny Buchmann ronny-vlug at vlugnet.org
Mon Feb 2 18:05:41 UTC 2004


On Saturday 31 January 2004 00:04, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 13:55 1/30/2004, you wrote:
> ><snip>
> >On a related issue, is it possible to combine several drives/partitions
> >into one logical Linux file system?
> >
> >In other words, if I have 3 hard drives, I might want to use one partition
> >on hda for /boot, another partition on hdb for /swap, and use all
> >remaining space on all other drives/partitions as the root fs.
> >Windows 2000 can do something similar, can Linux do this?
>
> What you want is LVM (Logical Volume Manager). Version 2 is just out, I
> think. In addition to this, possibly you might find some use of RAID
> useful.
combining disks without RAID > 0 is like playing with fire.

The warranty for hard disks going down from 3 years to 1 year has a reason...

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