Re: Effects of setting linux block device readahead size

On Thursday 11 September 2008, david@lang.hm wrote:
> while I agree with you in theory, in practice I've seen multiple
> partitions cause far more problems than they have prevented (due to the
> partitions ending up not being large enough and having to be resized
> after they fill up, etc) so I tend to go in the direction of a few large
> partitions.

I used to feel this way until LVM became usable. LVM plus online resizable
filesystems really makes multiple partitions manageable.


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Alan