Fewer partitions are better (Re: Disk Layout/Partitioning Practices)

[Bevan C. Bennett]

Fritz Whittington wrote:
> <snip>
> On a related issue, is it possible to combine several drives/partitions 
> into one logical Linux file system?
> 
> In other words, if I have 3 hard drives, I might want to use one 
> partition on hda for /boot, another partition on hdb for /swap, and use 
> all remaining space on all other drives/partitions as the root fs.  
> Windows 2000 can do something similar, can Linux do this?

You can configure software RAID either during installation (ask to 
perform a custom disk layout), or afterwards utilizing the utilities in 
the "raidtools" package on unused partitions.