Hi Joe, I am running 4 partitions on my OS, namely boot, swap, root and home. 'fdisk' only allows 4 partitons. How can I create additional partitions such /var /tmp /usr /etc Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 11:00, Joe wrote: > Randy Chrismon wrote: > > > I have two hard drives on my computer. The "master" is 30Gb and has a > > Windows partition on it -- although I can devote a portion of the > > drive to another partition. My second drive is 160Gb. Both drives are > > on the same controller. I can pretty much devote all of the second > > drive to Linux. I will be running a MySQL development server which I > > don't expect to have more than 2Gb data. My wife and daughter will > > have accounts on the Linux system. Given all the above -- and whatever > > else information I can provide that folks might deem appropriate -- > > what would you all suggest as the "best" partitioning scheme? A swap > > partition on the first drive? A separate home partition on the second > > drive? A separate partition for the MySQL data? All Linux on one big > > partition? > > With only 2 physical spindles you don't have a whole lot of room for > creativity - but definitely, put the swap partition on the first drive, > so it's a separate spindle for performance reasons. If you will be doing > much swapping, I'd put one swap partition on each spindle so they can > run in parallel for better performance. > > You'll want a small root partition, then add /home, /var, /tmp and /usr > partitions, so that they can be mounted with different options than the > root partition. mount all partitions with the noatime option, and mount > /tmp and /var with the data=writeback option. If you have room on the > first drive for one of these partitions it might be a good thing. I have > heard horror stories about ms windows though, deciding to claim part of > a linux partition on the sane disk as ms windows, and essentially > scribbling on it, so I'd be a bit leery of that. > > Joe > To Get Your Own iCareHK.com Email Address? Go To www.iCareHK.com. -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
