Re: Swap space settings and other partitioning q's

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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 10:11:42 -0600

Paul Sherwin wrote:
> On , Morningdew <yahooaddyismorning42dew@spam.free> wrote:
>
>>To turn Paul's argument around, I can always cut back
>>on swap space later.
>
> This is difficult if you configure a big swap partition. Sure, you can
> delete the swap partition and create a smaller one, but that leaves
> you with a chunk of free disk space. All you can do with this without
> repartitioning the whole disk is to create another small filesystem
> partition in it, which isn't much use.
>
> A swap file is much more flexible, but most people prefer a partition
> because there's less overhead.
>
> Best regards, Paul
> --
> Paul Sherwin Consulting http://paulsherwin.co.uk

Thanks, Paul. Here is what I was thinking:

250Gb SATA drive "Data Drive"
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  - 250Gb (ext3)

Basically all of it used for "commons" space. Data / media store,
programming projects, what have you. It's my playground. Only real
question I have for myself is whether to house the /home directories on
this partition too, sharing them between roots, or to leave separate
/home directories in under the roots.

60Gb IDE drive "Linux OS Drive"
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  - 10Gb Ubuntu 64-bit root (ext3)
  - 10Gb Ubuntu 32-bit root (ext3)
  - 28Gb free for experiments
  - 2Gb (swap)

The deal is that the Swap will be at the end, and can easily shrink (or
grow, heaven forbid) after I get a "real-world" feel for it. The
experimnetal 28Gb will be for a 5Gb distro test or two, depending, and
maybe a chunk here or there for experimental websites and content
management systems like Mambo, Typo3, Movable Type, phpBB, etc. Call it
my own little lab. I am also thinking of participating in the Freenode
Project (http://freenetproject.org/) as a node, which means sharing some
of my storage with the community. We'll see how that goes. I am very
much in favor of supporting community projects like this. The majority
of my media will also be available on p2p. Most of it consists of
freely tradable concert recordings like Grateful Dead shows (and several
other bands too!), stuff like that.

If I wind up putting my /home directories on the 250Gb drive and sharing
them between the distros, I may cut back the Ubuntu roots to 5Gb each
and leave more for experiments and projects. I will read about LVM and
scour the web a little more before deciding for sure. Aho seems to
think I'll have no problems with shared /home.

30Gb IDE drive "Windows OS Drive"
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  - 8Gb Win2k install (NTFS)
  - 22Gb (FAT32 ) for game data

This is for any game I may have but not be able to get to run in Linux
via Cedega/Wine. Hopefully these will be few, or something I won't care
about. Linux has Doom3 and UT2004, but there is so much more on the
Windows platform. Alas. Other than gaming, Win2k is there just in case
I ever want to test something for whatever reason, like stuff I write in
Java or web-stuff I need to test against IE (yeech!). I am actually very
reluctant to put Windows on my box. Bristles my feathers... The goal
is to boot Win2K as infrequently as possible. I will make the game data
partition as FAT32 so I can read/write data from Linux safely, should I
want to move anything between the OS's. Even for the games I get to
work under Linux via Cedega/Wine, I will still store their data in this
partition. Call it the "Game Drive" I guess.
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Thanks both of you, Paul and Aho, who have replied to me on the OP.

  .^//\/Morningdew\//\^..

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