[sheflug] HD partitioning question

["Wonkey Donkey" <wonkey_donkey [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I am setting up gentoo on a machine that has 4 x HDDs like so:

1. 36 Gb Raptor
2. 36 Gb Raptor
3. 300 Gb Maxtor Diamondmax 10
4. 300 Gb Maxtor Diamondmax 10

Since I have only ever used the suggested scheme from the gentoo 
documentation, I really just wanted an opinion on the following partition 
scheme:

HDD1:

sda1 : 32 Mb : /boot (Simply enough for a few custom kernels and the grub 
stuff)
sda2 : 4096 Mb : swap (The machine has 2 Gb of memory)
sda3 : remaining space on sda for /

HDD2:

sdb1 : all available space in a single partition, mounted as /usr

HDD3:

sdc1 : all available space in a single partition, mounted as /virtual (For 
virtual machines created using VMware)

HDD4:

sdd1 : all available space in a single partition, mounted as /documents (For 
the large number of user documents that will eventually be present).

Disks 3 and 4 aren't really in question, as I am happy using them in that 
way; its really about mounting the second raptor disk as /usr, or whether I 
should make use of it some other way ie. splitting it between /var and /usr, 
or perhaps a three way split between /var, /usr and /home.

The finished system won't have any servers or particularly intensive 
database/graphics stuff in use; its purely about getting the best desktop 
performance.

If anybody has any ideas or suggestions, I'd appreciate it.

Steve.



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