I've put together a box, got Linux installed, (several times) and it's running. Well, it runs until I do something stoopid, and blow it up. Learning by trial-and-terror, I guess. Anyway, each time I install Linux, I configure the drives differently. I've got 2 2gig SCSI3 and 2 8gig IDE. One of those IDEs (hdb)is being dedicated to DOS, so VMWares will have a place to put a MS OS, for video-capture purposes, only. I swear!
Basically, I know 'how' to partition, but I've very little idea 'what' to partition. I'd like to know what the optimal configuration of the partitions would be: for one 8gig IDE33, and two 2gig SCSI3. I'm going to be using the box for basically 'everything'. So far, the only constants are that the /boot partition (30M, 'cause I'm going to play with the kernel) is first in line on hda and both sda and sdb have a 64 meg swap at the beginning of them. (Is that right for 384m of ram?) What I'm wondering is where to put the other partitions so that the ones that get accessed/written to more often are on the SCSIs and the IDEs handle the storage. So I've got /home, /usr, /var, /tmp, etc., etc., and only a vague notion that the /var should be on one of the fast ones, for log files and such. Where should I put them, and how big should I make them? Does what I've got so far sound about right? I'm just trying to find one configuration I can set and leave alone through the inevitable (what's this button do?...BLAM!) re-installs. It's not that dire of an emergency, but it's bugging the heck out of me. Like a paper cut that won't go away. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Of course, the more detailed, the better. If you have any questions, please let me know, and I'll answer them.
Than-q
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