[ale] Large IDE hard drives

[Eric Z. Ayers]

My recommendation is that if you are going to watch the machine like a 
hawk and use it every day, partition it into one big partition.  It is
easier to manage that way.  If you are going to leave it to run in
some dark corner and  never log into it, plan out multiple partitions.
That way, when /var fills up, your machine doesn't come tumbling
down.

My $.02.



Glenn C. Lasher Jr. writes:
 > 
 > Generally, regardless of the drive size, I will partition it heavily.  For
 > example:
 > 
 > Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
 > /dev/hda1               101089     37876     57994  40% /
 > /dev/hda10            10091926   4949513   4618696  52% /aux1
 > /dev/hda5              1146352    435760    652360  40% /home
 > /dev/hda7               202220        35    191745   0% /tmp
 > /dev/hda6              1011928    807128    153396  84% /usr
 > /dev/hda9               101089     13597     82273  14% /var
 > 
 > This is a Western Digital 13.5G (really a 12G before marketing) drive.
 > 
 > On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 TChastain at beaconmail.com wrote:
 > 
 > > Has anyone had experience installing large IDE hard drives (32-80 GB) under 
 > > linux? I have tried several different kernel versions, and different 
 > > distributions. I can usually get the drives formatted and mounted fine, but 
 > > fsck always seems to have trouble on the drive near the end. Would a different 
 > > file system other than ext2 work better? The drives are not going to be root, 
 > > simply extra storage.
 > > 
 > > Trent Chastain
 > > Beacon Electronics
 > > (404) 256-9640
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