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I make it a point to NEVER create partitions larger than 250GB (other than VMFS volumes to store virtual disks) for many reasons. The two that come to mind are A) If a filesystem check is ever forced of a partition, a smaller partition completes quicker resulting in less down time; and B) If I ever have to do a full volume restore, my backup software cannot do a block level restore to a mounted volume, so smaller volumes mean that I can get some of the data back online while others are restoring.

I know that for convenience sake it is easy to just put everything into one volume and some people think they have to do that. But many times if you put a little thought into organizing your data you'll find that isn't always necessary.

Of course, I don't know you're environment so that may not be possible. But it's at least something to consider. Smiley Happy

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