jeff wrote:
>
> Being from the old school in dos and now learning the ins and outs of
> linux.
>
> With dos it's better to divid up a drive into smaller drives. "CDEFG"
> This will let things run faster and give you a tad more drive space.
> Does Linux work in a similar fashion? or is this a mute point in linux ?
being from the old school as well
I tend to divide up my linux as follows
/ /dev/hd??
/usr /dev/hd??
/var /dev/hd??
/home /dev/dh??
/root /dev/hd??
swap /dev/hd??
each of the above mount points (including swap) has its own slice of the
disk
I even have been known to take /home and /root on its own disk
currently my fstab looks like this:/dev/hda7
/ ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb5
/ftp ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda5 /home1 ext2 defaults
1 2 /dev/sdb1 /home ext2
defaults 1 2 /dev/hda8 /received
ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6
/root ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda5 /usr ext2 defaults
1 2 /dev/sda1 /var ext2
defaults 1 2 /dev/hda9 swap
swap defaults 0 0
