Reconfiguring a second partition for data storage in SuSE 9.0

From: sz (smugzilla_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: 26 Feb 2004 12:16:22 -0800

A few weeks ago I installed SuSE 9.0 to a dual-boot WinXP/Linux
system. I didn't play around with customization settings very much,
especially when it came to deciding how to use my available disk
space. Linux is on the second HDD, which has several partitions. I'm
trying to configure my system so that my empty partition mounts to a
subdirectory of my home directory (this is a single-user box).

The first three lines of fstab describing the linux drive are here:

/dev/hdb4 / reiserfs defaults
    1 1
/dev/hdb2 /home/pete/str auto defaults
    0 0
/dev/hdb3 swap swap pri=42
    0 0

The problem I'm getting is that hdb2 has what looks like a nearly
complete root file system loaded onto it, with huge /bin, /boot and
/dev directories. Do I need any of this stuff, why is it there in the
first place, and how can I get rid of it so that I have a nice, clean
partition on hdb2 where I can store some data? What options should I
be setting in fstab?

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