On 04/13/2011 02:00 PM, Gene Poole wrote:
> 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
This is the best argument I have seen so far against lumping
/usr into / partition.
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