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emery
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:37 pm    Post subject: sugestions for a partioning scheme, filesystems Reply with quote

My computer has two hard drives, a 30 gig one for linux and a 120 gig slave that held my old windows installation. I finally got around to cleaning windows up and crammed it in the back of the big one. Now I plan to hold swap, /var, /home, and some music on the new free space.
My partitions so far in order as they are on the disc:

    hda1 - /boot - 32M - ext2 - standard boot partion from installation
    hda2 - swap - 512M - this is now unused, I might shrink it and encrypt the /root folder and put it here, just a thought
    hda3 - / - 28G - ext3 - the root folder, this will stay here

    hdb1 - swap - 512M - my new swap, I put it here because I read somewhere it would read faster here
    hdb2 - /var - 4G - my new var that is is now in use

    here I have 80 gigs that I need to decide what to do with, I think I will make an extended partion and divide it into two
    /home - this will probably be a 40gig ext3 and I might encrypt it later on
    /music - this will be be 40 gig, the same size as my mp3 player for easy rsync. This will probably mount in my home folder and will be 92% full when I can mount it. I dont know what filestystem would be best though.

    hdb4 - ntfs - 32G - the old windows install with some games and other stuff, this is 97% full and bootable but may shrink or disapear later on.

So would resierfs or ext3 be better for a partion full of folders with 3-6 mb ogg files? Should I also put my /tmp folder on a second hard drive? I haven't seriously thought through encryption yet, my foremost concern at this point is performance. My system is young and I'm still a newb at this so I thought it would be best to ask you guys for advice before I did anything drastic.
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tukachinchila
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It looks like you've got a pretty good plan so far. If you're mostly concerned about speed, then reiserfs will be faster than ext3. On the other hand, nothing is more reliable than ext2/3. If it were me, I'd go with reiserfs for music though because I always keep a backup of my music on CDs (and reiserfs is pretty solid).

I like the idea of having /tmp on a separate partition. You can mount it 'noexec' which will improve security, even if you don't encrypt it. It shouldn't require much room either. My /tmp partition is only 512MB and I never come close to filling that space, but ymmv.
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