From: pdh@netcom.com (P D H) Subject: Re: Partitioning advice for Linux, 2 hard drives Date: Sat, 8 May 1993 00:09:05 GMT
cmb@epcc.ed.ac.uk (C M Brough) writes:
>(C: and D:). C: is a 105M drive, and D: is a 214M drive.
...
>size is /usr, /bin, etc.? I don't want to end up with a partition
>devoted to /usr or /home or whatever that either can't take all that
>needs to go in there or has a whole load of space left over that I'd
>like to use for other purposes.... It'd be nice to get it right first
>time round!
I'd make that 214M drive one biggie. Put the swap on the other drive
and avoid too much head seeking from paging. If you need to have DOS
and/or OS/2 around, let them live on the first drive (they surely need
very little space because they are not serious operating systems :)
You might even have space left over for extra swapping, a /tmp, or
another bootable root partition.
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