RE: [Sheflug] Partitioning.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

>===== Original Message From "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz> =====

>One idea - I don't have my mp3's in a single partition - currently I've got
>about 6 or 7 partitions dedicated to mp3's...why so many? Each partition is
>650MB in size...ie, 1 CD's worth. It makes it very swish and easy to write
>things out to CD when you know everything is under a single partition. :)

>Of course, if you have no CD writer, then this is a moot idea :) Currently I
>have about 15GB unassigned (I've a total of roughly 30GB split between a 3.2,
>6.4, and a 20GB drive) for future expansion (should I need it).

 I don`t have a writer, and I`m sure there are programs out there that can do 
that trick, without having thousands of 650Mb partitions if I do every get one 
(unlikely right now) :-)


>>  I want two swap spaces, totalling 400Mb or more (needed for Oracle), 
shared
>> equally between the drives.
>>
>
>For speed, put them at the beginning of the disks. Whichever drive is the
>faster is also the one you may want to put more swap on (think: fast swap,
>less latency when it comes to swapping to disk).

 Both disks are pretty equal - they are both newish Maxtors, with a good 
cache. The 13.6 is a little faster (might be a 7200rpm`er can`t remember)
>
>	- *don't* assign all the disk space...unless you really know where
>		you want to put it. This allows you to expand and move
>		partitions as and when there is demand.
>
 Not assigning all the space is one that hadn`t occured to me, I must say.

 Still, dunno if I like the idea...:-)

Barrie J. Bremner

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