On Sat, 15 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 97-11-15 01:46:49 EST, you write:
> Beyond the basics of mounting,fstab, and other items of mass destruction I
> was wondering in general what is a good way to partition the system. Ive got
> three HD on the system
>
> hda1 - Around 2 gigs currently mounted to everything
> hda2 - 64 Megs of swap
> hdb1 - 550 Megs (win95/dos)
> hdc1 - 128 megs nothing right now
>
> I'm thinking of redoing it so that
>
> hda1 - /
> hda2 - /root ???? (dunno)
> hdb1 - /dos (the HD has been reporting lots of errors lately thinking of
> trashing it)
> hdc1 - 32 Megs Swap Space
> hdc2 - 32 Megs /var
> hdc3 - 64 Megs /temp
If hdc is a 128MB drive, then it's probably older, and therefore
probably slower. In general, it's not a good idea to put swap space on a
slow drive. Stick it on the fastest drive available. For things like user
accounts, a slow drive is fine. My fstab looks something like:
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda1 /dos/c msdos user,noauto,rw 0 2
/dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/hda3 /usr ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda4 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /dos/d msdos user,noauto,rw 0 2
/dev/hdb2 /home ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /syquest ext2 user,noauto,rw 0 2
hda is a 1-gig drive with four partitions. 250MB for dos/win3.11, 250MB
for /, 500MB for /usr, and 32MB as swap.
hdb is a 400MB drive, with 200MB for dos and 200MB for user accounts.
hdc is my cdrom, and sda is my SyQuest EZFlyer. (I really like that
SyQuest. With the SCSI model, it's about as fast as my IDE drives.)
Here's my current usage:
/dev/hda2 247871 40279 194791 17% /
/dev/hda3 496691 371222 99816 79% /usr
/dev/hdb2 199079 107780 81018 57% /home
/dev/hda1 255732 164192 91540 64% /dos/c
/dev/hdb1 210416 89728 120688 43% /dos/d
/dev/sda1 211067 9776 190028 5% /syquest
As you can see, I really blew it allocating so much space for /. I could
shave 150MB off of that puppy and still have room for 60MB of temp files
in /tmp. Ah, well, the benefit of hindsight. I'm not quite ready to scrap
everything yet, and I'm not crunched for space since adding the SyQyest,
so why bother?
If I were installing this stuff from scratch, I'd put a small partition
for dos/win (maybe 150MB) in front. Then a 100-150MB / partition, *then*
a swap partition, and finally a big ol' /usr partition. (Putting the swap
partition in the middle means that hopefully it'll be able to seek to the
swap area faster.)
The other drive I'd probably leave alone, except maybe making the dos
partition smaller. Heck, I hardly ever boot that thing anymore. I just
keep it around for games.
When planning this stuff out, try to set things up so you don't go above
66% usage on any partition. After that point, it gets a bit harder to
keep things unfragmented, or so I'm told. I don't think it makes that
much of a difference, anyway.
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The meek can *have* the Earth. The rest of us are going to the stars!"
- Robert A. Heinlein
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