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).