On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 13:03, Collins Richey wrote: > 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).
Yep, I second that, 4 gig is around my limit per Linux distro, and I keep a common scsi 3gig drive for umm errr archives and downloads and things. I was reading somewhere that 8gig is an 'optimimum' for the linux ext2fs . It wasn't based on the (now mercifully obsolete) 8 gig bios limit, but something to do with bitlengths used for ext2fs lba, or file node hashing, or, well, something. I think you'd really have to push the envelope to make a big linux partition per OS. If you're heavily into image and sound then really, those files are a candidate for a separate drive or partition. If you're wondering technically if there's anything spooky about such a large drive and optimimum partition sizes because of that, then, yes, there *would* be some timing esoterica spanning the entire disk surface, but the effort you'd spend tweaking would be wasted. -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
