[Novalug] For discussion: better to partition or not partition?

[Megan Larko]

James Swanson wrote:
> Again, personally, I'd keep data on its own partition, and if I had
> the disks, separate drives.  This causes less fragmentation on the
> data, making it faster for reading.  If you're running a database
> server that can use raw partitions, I'd use that versus a formatted
> partition.

Thank you.   This is the part of the issue I am researching.  Is there any reason why you suggest, 
James, that I use a "raw partition"?    What is a "raw partition"?     This is data and will be on 
its own RAID device with SAS hard drives.

megan

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