Hardware is pretty much the lowest price in your business solution - what is the cost of the server being down? I'm talking enterprise now, not home use of course. Most of the enterprises I work with have multiple servers for their important apps - in application clusters or in virtual clusters - they have raid'ed disk subsystems, and there is a lot of extra disk space to go around. When your building solutions for an enterprise - you have to expect failures, what does that failure mean to your business. There is a reason commodity x86 platforms are taking all the proprietary unix workloads, cost, scale-out etc. With that low cost you can have multiple systems, spare boards, etc on the shelf, and most of my customers do. All I'm saying is use LVM, don't allocate all your disk space ahead of time - have a safety net! Disk is cheap. On 05/05/2012 03:26 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: > > On May 5, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Marc Skinner wrote: > >> LVM, LVM, LVM! keep some disk space unallocated, it will be a life saver! >> >> lots of good ideas and common server practices around separating out partitions - you can't plan for everything so, might as well plan for out of disk space - and build out a practical reserve that can be used any time. the days of rebooting to add or grow a partition are gone! >> >> make a standard for your environment, stick with it. there are always exceptions - might as well have a common starting point. >> >> good luck. > > > I have to say that's not very cost efficient... you might as well also buy an extra drive and RAID-1 to plan for a failure. And also have a spare board, RAM and CPU on hand in case something else dies. > > Drives are (relatively) cheap (even after the drivflation). > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list