If possible, I'd like to jump in on this conversation about a separate /usr partition. I work for a large corporation and we run multiple platforms (AIX, HP-UX, RHEL, Solaris) and most, if not all, of our servers not only have separate partitions, but separate file systems. If you are using LVM, the use of separate file systems make for much easier space management ( if /usr starts to run out of space, we get alerted and all we have to do is extend the /usr logical volume). On RHEL, the default disk definition is /boot; / (root); and swap. So we just took it one step further and split up the root directory and file system. And by splitting it up, you can put the different file systems on different disk allocations (raid-0; raid-1; raid-5; etc.) depending on their uses. If you take the default disk definitions and then add, say, oracle database you get oracle mixed in with the OS. Is this something you really want?
This also allows you to move file systems to SAN devices without an outage, under VMware. Thanks, Gene Poole
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