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

Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz at simpaticus.com
Fri Jan 30 23:04:11 UTC 2004


At 13:55 1/30/2004, you 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?

What you want is LVM (Logical Volume Manager). Version 2 is just out, I 
think. In addition to this, possibly you might find some use of RAID useful.


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