Separate /usr partition

[JD]

On 04/13/2011 02:47 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 17:00 -0400, Gene Poole wrote:
>> If possible, I'd like to jump in on this conversation about a
>> separate /usr partition.  I work for a large corporation and we run
>> multiple platforms (AIX, HP-UX, RHEL, Solaris) and most, if not all,
>> of our servers not only have separate partitions, but separate file
>> systems. If you are using LVM, the use of separate file systems make
>> for much easier space management ( if /usr starts to run out of space,
>> we get alerted and all we have to do is extend the /usr logical
>> volume). On RHEL, the default disk definition is /boot; / (root); and
>> swap. So we just took it one step further and split up  the root
>> directory and file system. And by splitting it up, you can put the
>> different file systems on different disk allocations (raid-0; raid-1;
>> raid-5; etc.) depending on their uses.  If you take the default disk
>> definitions and then add, say, oracle database you get oracle mixed in
>> with the OS.  Is this something you really want?
>>
>> This also allows you to move file systems to SAN devices without an
>> outage, under VMware.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gene Poole
> Your comments are more relevant to servers than to personal systems in
> my experience.
Is there a statistic in terms of numbers, as
to the the deployments of linux in servers vs. workstations?