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

[Phillip Hutchings]

> 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?

/boot - I think mine's ~50MB... You'll have to watch older systems.
It's just there because I like keeping /boot unmounted
/ - The rest of the drive.

In my case, I think /boot is ext2, but / is reiserfs.

I've never had any problems with reiserfs, it's actually managed to
hold together a system where the HD was dying, ext3 couldn't do that!
;P

I also use HFS+ on a drive that's partitioned 18/56 (would be 20/60,
but silly HD people can't count). In that case it's because I like
completely scrapping my MacOS X install when I upgrade, and at the
time I couldn't afford an external HD. Actually, that's still the
case, but I will be able to next time the upgrade monster comes around
:P

> ** Do you plan the purpose of a partition and then choose a filesystem or
> do you have filesystem that is used on all partitions?

Generally the former. I use reiserfs for / because it contains many
small files that need to be searched and accessed quickly. I use
maildirs :P

> I'm planning an exciting long weekend :-)
> 
> Thanks in advance for your input,
> 
> Ian


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