I generally understand partitioning well enough, and I'm happy with the arrangement on my system's primary 20 GB disk (small root and /boot partitions, plus partitions for /home, /usr, /var, /tmp, and swap). However, I've just bought an 80 GB disk to install as a second drive, and I'm not quite sure what to do with it. It will primarily be for storage (my Ogg Vorbis-ized CD collection, and so on), so is there any particular reason not to make a single 80 GB ext3 partition? Would, say, four 20 GB partitions be more efficient, faster to fsck, or have other benefits? My system currently has only 128 MB of swap, and 384 MB RAM (originally it has 128 MB RAM, but I upgraded it). I've never seen more than a few megs of swap actually in use, but even so, would there be a benefit to setting up an extra swap partition on the second drive? (Or perhaps putting swap on the second drive and removing the first drive's swap partition -- the new drive seems likely to be a bit faster.) Thoughts appreciated. And I've already read Karsten Self's partitioning FAQ (thanks, Karsten). Craig
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