John Aldrich wrote:
>
> Anyone have any suggestion for a partitioning scheme for a 10 GB SCSI drive?
> I have an 850MB IDE I thought I might use for /boot, since I have it lying
> around. I thought I might make at least one partition of say, 500 megs on
> the SCSI drive for /home (I'll probably be the only user) and leave the rest
> for /.
That is okay, but to have room for future growth or be able to
make later alterations, why don't you create an empty directory
of (example) 4GB. Make it partiton #4 and you can later make
extended parttions there. For now, just call it /aldrich.
Later on, if you use it, or repartiton it into extended parttions,
you can rename it in /etc/fstab.
500MB for /home is kinda skinny for a single-user system. In
shared systems, most people nowadays mind their disk usage. But
for a single user, you need room to put your future stuff in,
like downloads, etc. 2GB is more like it.
As for using a different drive for /boot; that is fine. You
may also consider using the other drive for the swap partition
instead. Or swap and some extra space like for /xtra.
If you want to use three hard drives, make sure that:
(1) A hard drive is not paired on the same interface (cable) as
an IDE CDROM.
(2) DMA-33 drives are not paired with CDROMs or non-DMA33 drives.
(3) DMA-66 drives need a special interface on the motherboard.
Good luck.
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