Ripcrd6 wrote:
>
> I have a PC w/ Mandrake 5.3 currently on it. I want to totally drop
> windows on this box and think I am ready to do so. When I installed Linux
> to this machine I used a separate hard drive for Linux and left the
> original to Windows 95. It's a Pent. 60 with a 540MB and a 810MB hard
> drive.
>
> When I do a reinstall I want to create more than just the / (root) and
> /swap partitions I did last time. Can I put /, /boot, & /whatever else on
> dev/hda and other partitions on the second HD which would be /dev/hdb?
> I'm sure this should work, but which partitions should go on which drive?
> And what sizes should I make them? I know /boot should be around 20MB,
> but not sure on the rest.
>
> Ideas / recommendations welcome. This PC will be networked to one or two
> other home PCs and will mainly be for net access, office applications and
> general experimentation.
> Brian
>
> "My God, it's full of penguins!" Finally true.
There's no problem at all with splitting your partitions across as many
drives as you can handle. Linux will take care of mounting all of them
when you boot. That's one of the extremely NICE things about Linux.
It's represented as one big filesystem no matter where it's physically
located.
I'd put /boot at the beginning of the first drive, then a nice
/usr/local partition so you don't lose locally installed software when
you do an upgrade. A hefty /home partition, and probably a /var
partition to keep growing logfiles from overrunning your root partition
(don't laugh, it's a hell of a Denial of Service attack). Probably make
a couple of swap partitions, one on each drive. Make the primary swap
partition on the drive that doesn't hold /usr.
One thing I've read somewhere (maybe usenet news) but never had the time
to benchmark was splitting the libs into their own partitions on a
separate drive from the bins. The theory is that as the bin is loading,
the other drive can be loading libraries. Interesting concept, but as I
said, I've never had the time to try it.
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Steve Philp
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Advance Packaging Corp.
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