Hello everybody,
I have recently bought a new 40GB HD, and sold my old
4.3GB HD (not enough space for 2 HDs inside cabinet).
Now, with so much space available, I have been thinking
about how to partition this HD. I came up with the
following partitioning scheme. Please comment on whether
this is reasonable enough? (Somewhere I read that ext2 or ext3
partitions bigger than about 6GB are not efficient enough.)
Here goes: (assuming(wrongly!) 1 GB = 1000 MB.)
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hda1: < 2.7 GB> : Free space. Will install Windows XP if someday
I feel I will have to learn it.
hda2: <11.3 GB>:hda5 :</boot><100 MB> |
hda6 :<swap><200 MB> |This is for Debian,
hda7 :</><1 GB> |and will be my main
hda8 :</usr><5 GB> |work area. I do not
hda9 :</usr/local><2GB>|intend to reinstall,
hda10:</var><1 GB> |ever...Only upgrade.
hda11:</home><2 GB> |
hda3: < 5.0 GB>:hda12:</><4 GB> |This is for Mandrake 9.1
hda13:</home><1 GB> |To be mainly used for
|testing out latest versions
|of exciting distros.
hda14:</><2.8 GB> |This is for learning.
hda15:</home><0.2 GB> |Presently I plan to choose
|between NetBSD 1.6, Gentoo 1.4
|or LFS 4.0
hda16:<3 GB> |Not sure what this will have.
|Just in case I feel like
|installing something like QNX.
hda4: <16.0 GB>:<To be mounted as |What filesystem should I
/mnt/Backup on all the |use for such a huge partition??
Linux installations> |Please suggest.
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I would really like to put Debian on hda1, with swap as the outermost
partition, but not sure whether MS OSs suffer from '1024 cylinder'
problem, which bugged lilo until recently.
Please do comment/suggest on the above partitioning scheme.
Regards,
Santanu
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