[KLUG Members] Disk partition

[Bryan-TheBS-Smith]

Bruce Smith wrote:
> If you really have heavy I/O usage, you can do much better by
> breaking your partitions up onto different hard drives, as
> opposed to partitioning a single hard drive.

Well, if you're really concerned about performance then, RAID-0+1 is an
option.

> Otherwise, I'd be more concerned about separating out partitions
> that might fill up.

/tmp and /var are the biggies.  Again, if you only want to make 3
partitions, I'd make:

   swap
   /
   /var

[ And symlink /tmp -> /var/tmp ]

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