Hello Santanu I perused through your partioning scheme and offer following comments: 1. Windows can reside only on a primary partition as far as I know of 2. /mnt/Backup may be constructed as ext2fs ; that's what I have setup on my HDD (40 GB) 3. As per your scheme hda14 seems to be a logical partition.I believe NetBSD/FreeBSD requires primary partition.Please check on this as that's my experience with FreeBSD. In case you have a different experience, please let me know. Murali P Santanu Chatterjee wrote:
>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.) >------------------------------------------------------------ >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. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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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