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madeye

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Registered: 2006-07-19

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250GB raid, should it be split in partitons?

Hi there,

I've just installed a raid card with two 250GB harddrives doing mirroring, and am having a hard time deciding whether to make one large partition or not. I'd rather have one big partition, and then make symbolic links to whatever I need it for.
But the question I'm looking for an answer to is if that would make the system slower, or if there is a partition max size that I should not exceed.

From google I got the impression that the size of an ext3 partition could very well be 4TB, so that shouldn't be a problem.

I've tried lvm, but don't really like it. I've kinda old school, and want my partitions to stay where I tell them to.

What do you say?

Edit: Forgot to tell you that it's only my user data that will be stored in the raid. The system itself is on a normal harddrive. I can rebuild the system quick enough, so that's no problem for me.

Last edited by madeye (2007-08-24 17:52:03)

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