OK... my tuppence, after the discussion has finished :-)
1) you have two hard disks, why not split the partitions equally across them both?
a) when you get an fsck at bootup it runs both hardisks at the same time, sop is
quicker.
b) split the swap across two partitions on two hard disks, with equal priorities -
this doubles the data transfer rate, just what you need when you're thrashing. This
is mentioned in some HOWTO I'm sure...
c) generally better :-)
2) apparently logical partitions can be bad, becuase they store the details
(location, size, etc) of the partition in the previous logical partition. IE, if the
info for your 2nd logical partition gets corrupted, it is not possible to read your
third,fourth,fifth,sixth etc.
with primary paritions OTOH each partitions info is stored in a specific location
towards the beginning of the disk.
So, my point is to use 3 primary partitions and the rest logical.
Here is some info that might give you an idea:
one user; used for web/internet with netscape/etc, some programming, thats about
it...waiting to get Word Perfect (UK mostly charges per minute for internet access)
I use windows for games and writing music, cos I haven't got any trackers to compile
under linux (mostly due to the slink/potato combination I am using I think :-), and
cooledit, cubase vst etc etc don't run under linux/wine afaik.
IDEA: someone package up a tracker for debian...
anyway,
bash-2.01$ df
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda4 173725 25061 139693 15% /
/dev/hda6 643958 172300 438395 28% /var
/dev/hdb5 1484386 1072744 334932 76% /usr
/dev/hda5 247870 113687 121382 48% /usr/local
/dev/hdb6 396500 270689 105329 72% /home
/dev/hdb7 295474 162418 117796 58% /home/ftp
/dev/hda2 909404 783180 126224 86% /dos/c
/dev/hdb1 2525252 2045440 479812 81% /dos/d
/dev/hdb9 1018088 787776 230312 77% /dos/e
[Yes, I know that I'm not following my own logical partition advice, I just don't
have enough floppies to sort it out...]
/etc/fstab attached...
hopefully that might help you make a judgement,
frankie.
Brad wrote:
> i hope to get a lot of opinions!
>
> Right now, i have my entire Linux on one 4G HD (minus some data files and
> things for Wine to play with on a FAT32 partion on a second drive). One
> partition for swap, one for everything else. From what i've heard, not a
> very good arangement if anything goes wrong. So, i'm thinking of backing
> up everything and making some more partitions.
>
> 1. If i understand things correctly, /, /boot, /lib, /bin, /sbin, /dev,
> parts of /etc, and maybe /root should be on one partition below the
> 1024th cyl for hysterical reasons, which do apply in my case. Do i
> understand correctly?
> 2. If i were partitioning a new HD, what would be a good size for the
> partition containing just those directories, that wouldn't waste too
> much space. Right now on my system, du -c reports 18M for that list, so
> i'm thinking 50M would allow plenty of room for expansion?
> 3. How about sizes for other partitions? /home i'm thinking 750M
> (personal workstation, 6 users that are just different mailing
> addresses for me), 1G for /var (with /tmp -> /var/tmp, is that a
> bad idea?), 2.1G for /usr.
> 4. hda1 should be /, but how about the rest? home var swap usr as 2 3
> 4 5?
> 5. What am i missing, that i think i fit everything (including 64M of
> swap) onto a 4G HD? ;)
>
> Just trying to learn here.
>
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> /dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda3 none swap sw,pri=0 0 0 /dev/hdb8 none swap sw,pri=0 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 #support for unix98 ptys none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /var ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hdb5 /usr ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda5 /usr/local ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hdb6 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hdb7 /home/ftp ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,noauto,user 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,noauto,user 0 2 /dev/hda2 /dos/c vfat defaults,auto,codepage=850,user,gid=100 0 2 /dev/hdb1 /dos/d vfat defaults,noauto,codepage=850,user,gid=100 0 2 /dev/hdb9 /dos/e vfat defaults,noauto,codepage=850,user,gid=100 0 2
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