[wellylug] Finally going to do it .. only ...

[David Antliff]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Ilia Pavlenko wrote:

>>> ** How do people partition their large drives and what file systems do
>>> they use?
>
> about 5 gig for system,
> rest is split into 10 gig pieces for data. separate
> partition for /home
>
>> I create one single partition eating up all the space, and I use reiserfs (v3 so
> not a good idea - all egs in one backet :) what if you want a total
> upgrade with reformatting ?

I *was* using a 10GiB Gentoo / and a separate /home but it was such a pain 
finding space on / that I just whipped it all onto a second HDD and copied 
it back to a single / partition. Only /boot is separate (and kept 
unmounted). If I lose the partition or filesystem I lose the lot. Big deal 
- I keep backups. I use XFS and have done so for a long time. Definitely 
gets my recommendation for stability and ease of use. I've had too many 
systems running reiser3 die on me and ext3 thrashes too much for my taste.

Total upgrade with reformatting? Back up /home and /etc and anything else 
of value in /var, reformat, reinstall, and restore backups.

>> Always use reiser now.
> I had weird issues with reiser,.. always use ext3 now :)

Ditto, except the ext3 bit. XFS performs subjectively better in my 
opinion (I ran bonnie++ tests once and that convinced me. Haven't done 
that lately but XFS is sooo nice to use :).

If you are going to try multiple linux distributions (i.e. multiple / 
filesystems) then I recommend a dedicated (small) partition for GRUB and 
it's files. Then you don't lose grub if you nuke your distro that had it 
installed.

-- 
David.