[TriLUG] Partitioning recommendations

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On the general precept that "if you're flexible now, you'll have more
options and fewer headaches in the future," I would recommend using LVM,
creating a single lv of the size necessary to start out, and then
growing it as needed in chunks with e2fsadm utilities.

LVM is never silly, only more or less necessary. :)

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Jos Purvis wrote:
> ...but not quite the usual question. I have this-here big-ol' 320GB
> secondary disk that I just installed this morning in my workstation.
> It's intended to be reserved for backups (long story) of another
> machine, creating a local Yum repository...stuff like that. The OS is
> quite happy on its own 80GB disk, so I'm looking to just put, say,
> /opt on this one and slap all of the backup/repository/whatever
> storage under there.
> 
> Here's my question: does it matter how I partition the disk? My first
> instinct was to just create one huge partition of 320GB, then I
> thought I should do something with LVM for fun, then I realized it's
> just one disk, so LVM would seem silly if I'm not creating multiple
> partitions. Is there any reason (performance or otherwise) not to just
> create one partition and move on? Am I overthinking this entirely?
> When making stewed tomatoes, are three enough? Are four too many?
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
>     --Jos
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