partitioning help for 2 drive set-up please...

[lo-jay]

i'm rebuilding my box with 2 drives, a 74gb raptor & a 200gb maxtor
want to use the small drive as system drive & the big one only for /home.

my scheme looks like this:

[Dlareh]

I fail to see why someone unsure about how to write an fstab for two drives feels the need to have a seperate /usr, /opt, /var, and /tmp. Do yourself a favor and lump most of those under /, with *possibly* a seperate /usr or /tmp depending on your needs. In particular, a seperate /opt will be useless in the vast majority of cases.... unless you need to keep your / partition ultra-small for some strange reason.

Anway, /dev/sdb1 should of course be primary and the line for /home will look something like this:

[lo-jay]

in ultra-modesty

thanks for the reply!
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[lo-jay]

ok, am ignorant as i'm, i figured out the mounting part ( not in the handbook btw ) would look like this:

[emery]

that should be right
I would recomend putting some of the partitions on the secound hard drive since you have plenty of space. Reason being there is a performance boost if /var, /home, and the swap are on a second drive in different partions. This way binaries are read off of one disk, and data is writen on the secound drive, in /home or /var. I would definitly put /var on your second hard drive as that will speed up portage noticably. Having some stuff in different partitions is good because it reduces fragmentation, and thus read times are improved. There are security advantages too because some partions can only be written to by the root user. Something else to keep in mind is data on the outer edge of a disk reads faster than the inner edge, I think.
These are my mount points

/dev/hda1 /boot
/dev/hda2 /tmp
/dev/hda3 /
/dev/hdb1 swap space
/dev/hdb2 /var
/dev/hdb5 /home
/dev/hdb6 /home/[my home]/music
/dev/hdb4 /mnt/ntfs

I read this when I was trying to figure this stuff out http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/partition-planning-tips.xml

[lo-jay]

one more question: do i have to mount the extended partition too?

thanks again!
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lo-jay

The mechanic "One of 'em Dodge Chargers - let him go by."
The driver "Not today!"

taken from "Two Lane Blacktop"

[nixnut]

You can't mount the extended partition.
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