personally I would go with the multi-partion option. There are lots of different
advantages, depending on how you use your system. Principally, if you use or
plan to use more than one OS, or distribution of linux, then splitting your
drive(s) upinto logical chunks will help you share stuff. Also when you realise
you haven't booted windows in weeks, and you've got several gigs in /usr/src.
you can more easily switch things around.
I have (from df)
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda8 497667 422642 49323 90% /
/dev/hdc7 4874192 4234572 639620 87% /mnt/hdc7
/dev/hda5 1523192 1427422 17054 99% /usr
/dev/hda1 2100360 2043580 56780 97% /mnt/sisko
/dev/hda6 1018298 929447 36240 96% /usr/src
/dev/hdc5 2934116 2275940 658176 78% /mnt/hdc5
/dev/hdc6 4874192 4862608 11584 100% /mnt/hdc6
/dev/loop0 1014911 137625 824858 14% /mnt/gig
/dev/sda4 98078 44766 53312 46% /mnt/zip
Originally, hda6 was a windows partition.
Incidentally, on the subject of fsck'ing, I recently installed a 2.4.3 kernel on
my redhat 6.0 machine, and I always get umount: / is busy on shutdown, on a
complimentary /dev/hda8 was not cleanly unmounted fsck on startup. Any ideas
what it is? Is it to do with the kernel, or upgrading the other utils. How do I
figure out why?
Rob
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Tom Allender wrote:
->Jim wrote:
->>
->> > On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Toby Jaffey wrote:
->> >
->> > Does anyone use ReiserFS? I am considering reformatting and moving away
->> > from ext2. Basically, I have a lot of hardware related crashes and it's
->> > finally driving me nuts.
->>
->> Yep. When I bought my new machine 6 mounths ago, thought I might as well put
->> all the latest stuff on it. My / partition has been Reiser since then, and I
->> have had no probs at all. Fscks a 40Gb partition in seconds. I say go for it.
->
->Do you organise your disk as one big partition of 40Gb?
->
->I ask because a have recently transferred my linux install from a 2Gb disk
->to a 10Gb. I made the decision to partition large sections off separately
->so that /usr has its' own space for example.
->
->/etc/fstab
->
->/dev/hdc2 / ext2 defaults 1 1
->/dev/hdc1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
->/dev/hdc4 /mnt/junk vfat rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
->/dev/hdc5 swap swap defaults 0 0
->/dev/hdc6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
->/dev/hdc7 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
->etc...
->
->Is this a good idea or not? It was certainly useful during the install as
->I could boot from a floppy and mount hard-drive partitions into the floppy
->/ filesystem.
->What are the arguments for each side?
->
->Also, what are the relative merits of ext2 vs ext3 vs reiserfs?
->
->Tom.
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