[Sheflug] Re: Partitioning

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

Ian Wright wrote:
> 
> What was particularly annoying was that the
> 'main' drive was 3.4Gb and had more 'unusable' space than the 1Gb secondary
> drive. In the end I got p***ed off with it and reinstalled linux (Mandrake
> 7.1) completely on the 'main' drive and put windoze on the 1Gb drive. It
> would, however, be nice to get back to a fully linux machine with both
> drives working - and maybe add another 850MB one I've got hanging about.


 Mmm.

 Just looked over this one...

 I'm generally ignoring swap partitions here, but don't forget them!!!

 How about having / on the 850Mb drive, and /usr on the 3.4 Gb, and
/home on the 1Gb drive?
 Or, partitioning the 3.4 drive into two and having /home and /usr on
that, having / on the 1 Gb and having the 850 spare (or stick /var or a
swap partition on it)
 Or, using the append module to lump all the disks together into a 5Gb
virtual drive and pray nothing goes wrong?
 Or, partition the 3.4 Gb into a 1Gb and 2.4 Gb, using the 1Gb drive in
a RAID 0 config with the 1Gb partition (gives 2 Gb) for /usr and
stuffing / a 256Mb swap partition and small /boot partition onto the 2.4
Gb remaining.


 Oooo! I like that last one...probably be a pain tho.

 Or...and the list goes on...

Baz.
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