Fewer partitions are better (Re: Disk Layout/Partitioning Practices)
Bevan C. Bennett
bevan at fulcrummicro.com
Fri Jan 30 20:05:22 UTC 2004
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.
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