-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2009/03/28 12:38 PM, Josh Sled wrote: > I've been dealing with dwindling disk space, recently. :/ It just bit > me hard after I tried to free up some disk space and found a corner-case
Show me a geek who isn't running out of disk space, and I'll show you a...oh, never mind. Bummer about your vbox loss. :-( > Except for a non-RAID/-LVM boot partition, I'm not sure of a good reason > anymore (for my machine roles, anyways) to have separate /home, /var, > /opt, &c. partitions … am I wrong? All I've noticed with having a > separate /, /home and /a (secondary hard drive) is that I spend a lot of > time moving and symlinking stuff between them to balance the two drives > on an ad-hoc basis. :/ Not so much for reasons of "regret" as Paul intimated, I'd segment off those trees most likely to grow if only because you wouldn't be able to grow your root partition online, assuming you're using ext[2|3]. I've done online resizes with jfs, but your willingness to use that will, I suspect, vary directly with how much "religion" you've got this week. (In the second of my two experiences with it, jfs performed as though reading from the "jfs vs. ext3" comparison textbook: online grows were great, deletes of large files were fast, and failures incurred catastrophic data loss. %*&%#.) > It seems like LVM can do striping, but maybe this is silly? Leave it to > RAID, and just use LVM for VM? Or use LVM to compose two 750GB RAID0 > drives in a striped manner? Somewhat more like concatenation than striping. If you really want striping for performance reasons, RAID0 FTW. > Also, is boot/livecd support for RAID+LVM "there", or should I keep a > separate simple boot drive? Presuming software RAID: Probably, somewhere. It really only involves a few steps on top of what you might otherwise have to do. (Specifically, enumerating the members of a logical device manually, then starting it by hand.) It's not terribly arduous. A Linux Journal article[1] from April of 2006 walks the reader through the process nicely. Cheers, - -sth [1] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8874 sam hooker|[email protected]|http://www.noiseplant.com I have received the love Internet dispatch. -spam -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknPwigACgkQX8KByLv3aQ0LmACg5QJAmz+OK2Ns6mYEYdknJ5bN zbwAn1OnakOsqj0+/fA2etEBhcgK5AHA =47c5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
