> Three letters: LVM. If your distro is a modern one that has proper > support for this, then the only partitions you'll ever need to worry > about are /, /boot, and swap. You can make logical volumes on the fly > and use them as though you would use partitions. You can make logical > volumes grow in size as you need more space. If you add a disk to your > system the current logical volumes you have can expand to use that disk > as well. No more committing to partition sizes. No more symlink farms. > I don't know why so many people are *still* so ignorant of this > feature... It's not at all difficult to use, and the LVM HOWTO on TLDP > explains the procedure in detail.
Yes LVM is a cool Linux feature and very useful for storage solutions but volume management generally sucks if you don't have a clue and stems from being comfortable with it or not. Volume management is different across the unixes, at least i'm sure symlinking is standard on any unix and I don't need to read a HOWTO to manage symlinks. --ed
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