I want to use this drive to boot several versions of linux. If I can get a cheap copy of XP, I will want to put that on there, too. I will use most of this drive as a big storage unit for: 1. All those mp3's which my family loads off the internet (five people can fill up a hard drive fast with mp3's). 2. Backing up my home network. 3. I will back up the working partitions (linux, XP) to another computer on my home network. Joel
> I presume you mean an 80GB dirve, which is indeed large. I've experimented > with various partitionings, but I always come back to a single partition per > distro or a separate /home partition as second choice Unless you plan to > download tons of MP3/OGG files, movie clips, iso images, etc. ... I never > manage to get more than about 5GB used (with both KDE and gnome and > OpenOffice, and a few iso images downloaded). So, I would carve the drive up > into 10-15GB chunks max (I use 6.4GB max at present). > > Tell us more about your plans for the drive - multiple distros, big > databases, music library, ??? > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
