Bob Razler on Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:59:29 -0400 (EDT)


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RE: [PLUG] recommendations?


Hello:

	All this drive talk has me thinking.  Now I am VERY new to Linux, so
don't rip me for maybe asking the obvious.

	With all the RAID options on some motherboards these days, and ultra
cheap IDE drives, how does Linux like RAID arrays?   

	I just used the ABIT KT7 motherboard, with RAID built in (and a
Duron 650 running nicely at 950 Mhz, not bad for $65) for my wifes PC
upgrade.  I need to look on the included CD for Linux drivers for the RAID
controller.

Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
[mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of Erik Yunghans
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 2:44 PM
To: 'plug@lists.phillylinux.org'
Subject: RE: [PLUG] recommendations?


so maybe ill break it down like this:

swap -> 512mb (256 mb of ram)
/ -> 100mb (nothing should be here anyways)
/boot -> 10mb
/etc  -> 500mb
/root -> 500mb
/home -> 10GB
/usr  -> 10GB

then i still get 9gb left over... is there a sort of percentage basis to go
off of somewhere? (ie. your /usr partition should be 25% of total hd
space)...

sheesh. 30gb is pretty hard to fill up, it seems to be quite unweldy with
too much space (plus im a minimalist when it comes to installations)

-erik





-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Leone [mailto:turgon@mike-leone.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 2:38 PM
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] recommendations?


Probably, different partitions for each of the major portions of the
filesystem - one partition for /, one for /var, one for /usr, one for /home,
one for /etc, and one for /boot (the first partition, 10M in size or so - to
forestall any problems with LILO tring to load from beyond the 1024 cylinder
boundary). With different partitions, you can unmount them easily for
undeletion (thank you, Bill Jonas!) or for converting to the new ReiserFS
Journalling file system, for example.

As for sizes ... no idea. :-)

Did I get that right?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Yunghans" <Erik.Yunghans@bentley.com>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 2:04 PM
Subject: [PLUG] recommendations?


> so i had the pleasure last week of dealing with a dead western digital
that
> made a horrible screech when booting. needless to say, out with the old,
in
> with the new!
>
> (being a 30gb western digital!)
>
> so my question:
>
> what do you guys think would be the best way to partition this badboy? its
> going to be all linux, all slackware v7.1, and no one could ever give me a
> straight answer on the best way to go about partitioning on linux for
> optimum performance. if there is any documentation on this, please point
me
> to it!
>
> thanks,
> erik
>
>
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