On Monday 13 September 2004 15:08, Scott Barlow wrote: > Thank you Andrew for your quick response. I have allowed enough for each > partition. If anything I will be wasting space which is ok for the > moment as i'm just experimenting. My computer consists of a 40gb drive > which has the install on it and a blank 80gb drive. My /boot is around > 100mb, my /, /var, /tmp is around 1Gb, my /usr is 10Gb, /swap is 1gb and > /home is 25gb. This is all freshly configured. I don't know what to do > with the second drive such as how to partition it to enable a lot of > space for files, movies, music etc and which mount point to give it. I > do want to do it properly however and am after any tips from the gurus. > My /swap space is physically in the middle of the 7 partitions. Do i > need /swap space on the 2nd hard disk or is that not possible? > Thank you in advance. > > Scott.
FWIW I have a 40gig which I use to dual boot win98 and Debian Woody. I also have a 80gig drive in 1 partition which I just mount as /data. The last contains my collection of iso images of various Linux distros. If I had multiple users on my system I would give it the same perms as /tmp. HTH Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
