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Hard drive partitioning strategies

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Hard drive partitioning strategies

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- [Instructor] We've already chosen the automatic partitioning scheme during install. However, if you're installing a server from scratch and have special plans for that server, it may be good to create partitions manually. This gives you a lot of flexibility that you won't have with the automatic partitioning scheme. With other operating systems, the entire OS goes in one partition. With Linux, we have the ability to put pieces of it on many different discs just by mounting those volumes into the file system tree. For instance, we could segment off /boot, /home, and /var into separate partitions if we wanted to. The Linux mounting system is completely flexible. We can even mount a drive onto a directory deep within the file system such as /home/grant/data and have it be completely transparent to the user. When the user goes into the directory, they will not know it's a separate drive. In modern Linux, we have several…

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