[wellylug] Finally going to do it .. only ...
Richard
richard at redspider.co.nz
Tue Oct 19 20:55:12 NZDT 2004
> After fighting with Windows 2000 Internet Connection Sharing, Zonealarm
> and Mdaemon last weekend, I've gone and I've splashed out on a processor
> and RAM upgrade and went and bought a 120GB disk. I'm going to leave my
> 40GB to dual boot Windows 95 and 2k.
>
> Now way back, it was simple FAT, and then FAT32 and then FAT32 or NTFS -
> now about to put linux onto my workstations I must admit I'm at a bit of a
> loss on how to partition 120GB and what filesystem(s) to use.
>
> This has been done to death I think before and hell I though what's
> another flame war amongst friends :-)
>
>
> ** How do people partition their large drives and what file systems do
> they use?
I create one single partition eating up all the space, and I use reiserfs (v3 so
far but I intend to switch to v4 at some point). I no longer see any value in
partitioning space up in a manner which is difficult to change on a workstation.
On servers there are some (but many fewer than there used to be) reasons to
create one or two partitions to prevent worst-case scenarios related to disk
space, but overall I still tend towards as few as I can get away with.
Older systems of course still require the /boot partition at the start of the
disk.
> ** Do you plan the purpose of a partition and then choose a filesystem or
> do you have filesystem that is used on all partitions?
Always use reiser now.
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Richard Clark,
Analysis and Design,
Red Spider Ltd.
(+64) 021 478 219
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