Re: [Sheflug] Re: Partitioning

[Richard Lowe <nospam [at] btinternet.com>]

* Barrie Bremner (TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net) wrote:
> 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.
>

It probably worth noting, that depending on you version of LILO, you
may need a small (mines 17mb), /boot partition at the start of the first
drive for the kernel, as old versions of lilo (I've heard there are no
problems with the latest, but havent tried), have issues with booting a
kernel after the 1024'th cylinder
 

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