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On Fri, 01 Nov 2002 20:49:22 -0500
begin  "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:

> 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.
> 
> Thanks.

Well, I'd put /home on a separate partition regardless.  That makes future
upgrades easier.  Less worries about losing users' data.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
- -- 
Focus on the dream, not the competition.
                -- Nemesis Racing Team motto
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