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Bernhard Auzinger wrote: |
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> My question is if it makes sence to move these partitions to another harddisk? |
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Others have responded to this well already - one thing I might add is to |
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check out lvm if you have so many drives. Once you've used it you'll |
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NEVER go back. Depending on the filesystems you use it is easy to |
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resize partitions after the fact, and moving them from drive to drive is |
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a breeze even while they're active. |
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I'm currently running on 5 logical volumes on top of two RAID-5 md |
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devices. (With two more mirrored md devices for boot and root). Six |
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hard drives in total. It took a little work getting to this point, but |
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I can move stuff around easily while filesystems are online and with |
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full redundancy on everything but swap (I could run swap on my RAID-5 |
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lvm partitions, but you take a performance hit there - and I don't care |
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about a possible crash so much as the loss of lots of data). |
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Oh, and for /tmp and /var/tmp consider using tmpfs - you don't get |
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faster access times than virtual ram. You might need to fall back to |
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your hard drive for very large emerges unless you have 5-10GB of swap... |
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