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

[Centurion Computer Technology Ltd]

If your distro supports LVM(2) them use it, it will allow you to resize
partitions relatively painlessly and if you use reiserfs with it, you
can even resize your partitions on the fly.  It also supports raid like
striping across multiple disks.   

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 09:28, Ian Beardslee wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 
> ** Do you plan the purpose of a partition and then choose a filesystem or 
> do you have filesystem that is used on all partitions?
> 
> 
> I'm planning an exciting long weekend :-)
> 
> Thanks in advance for your input,
> 
> Ian
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