Creating partitions is good for security, not just recovery. And don't assume that just because you have a RAID5 array, that you're immune to problems. I've encountered way too many RAID5 systems that ended up needing restoration from tape backup. Keep in mind, if/when the RAID controller dies, your backups are all you have.

On 11/01/2002 05:49 PM, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
I'm going to install RH 7.3 on a system with a SCSI RAID. The RAID is on an Adaptec 3210S with six drives - 1 hot spare, 5 in the RAID. Normally I create separate paritions for things like /, tmp, home, var, usr but with the RAID I'm wondering if it's necessary. Could I just make the RAID (it's about 170Gig) two partitions (/boot, and /) with the other directories under / (/tmp, /var, etc.). What are the pros and cons of doing it this way? I'll have a Cybernetics 15 tape library attached to the system for backup.
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