Re: Partitioning of second HD?
I am just trying to use LVM combined with Reiserfs. That's also a very
good choice for your, IMHO.
Qian
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Craig Dickson wrote:
> 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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