Rick Stevens wrote:
As you've said, this isn't optimal by any means. Splitting out filesystems and dedicating them to specific purposes makes maintaining the system (backups, restores, tuning, file access speeds, etc.) much more efficient.
Re: file access speeds, that only applies if you've got multiple HDAs, right? If you've only got a single disk drive, multiple partitions will usually slow things down as (e.g.) that single HDA jumps from one partition to read some OS code over to another partition to read some user data.
To a point. Multiple drives will increase performance (as long as they're SCSI with disconnect enabled) You won't necessarily get that much improvement from IDE drives.
Limiting the size of a partition also limits head travel inside a given partition and gives you faster access (the slowest thing on modern hard drives is still head movement). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens vitalstream com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Do you know how to save five drowning lawyers? No? GOOD! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------