From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 11:12:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A941A37B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:12:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83CA043FA3 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:12:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (electron.centtech.com [204.177.173.173]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h2QJC356008279; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:12:04 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3E81FB7E.8030206@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:11:58 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer References: <3E81D7AE.60603@centtech.com> <3E81E0F2.4060801@gmx.de> <3E81E15C.4050208@centtech.com> <3E81E34D.1010503@gmx.de> <16001.59693.892788.392814@guru.mired.org> <3E81F673.4040706@centtech.com> <16001.63456.589121.843443@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-22.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel - 8th partition shows "X" as Partition name X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:12:09 -0000 Mike Meyer wrote: > In <3E81F673.4040706@centtech.com>, Eric Anderson typed: > >>Mike Meyer wrote: >>[..snip..] >> >>>Of course, one has to wonder why anyone needs as many as seven >>>partitions on a single disk. It's far more common to want to go the >>>other way, and have multiple disks in a single partition. >> >>Separating the 350Gb up into smaller chunks makes dividing the space for >>different projects much easier. Also, this is a RAID 50, so I've got >>the "multiple disk in a single partition" taken care of. > > > Different projects is what directories are for - unless there are > reasons to have a space firewall between them. In general, the reasons > for creating partitions these days are administrative. Otherwise, > you're just creating things that will run out of space quicker than > having one big one. > > Have you thought about dividing the disks up into different RAID > devices to mimic your administrative needs? I could possibly go with one large partition, I'll have to rethink that (all our other NFS servers are split). Now, different RAIDs mean less disks per RAID, which means less "speed" and lower disk efficiency. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------