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xen

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Registered: 2008-08-17

Posts: 56

Partitioning advice

Hey guys,

I'm planning to add a new drive to my system so I'll have 1.2TB of space to play around with. I would like my 2 drives to appear as one large available space, RAID?

Anyway, I'm not sure of the best way to partition the available space. I will need to dual boot Windows and Arch. I currently have about 60GB of music, and I want plenty of space for Windows for games and such (I also use Windows for university programming assignments when Linux is not an option). My current scheme looks like this:

128MB ext2 /boot
20GB ext4 /
160GB ext4 /home

I keep my music currently in my home partition, but isn't accessible in Windows due to ext4. This time around I forgot to make a swap partition because I ran out of available partitions (logical) but I'm planning to start from scratch. I would like to re-arrange everything for best performance - I know that some people have separate partitions for /var.

So: I'm looking for partition size advice, and also what fileystem to use. Remember the total space available will be about 1.2TB.

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quarkup

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 497

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Re: Partitioning advice

there is a tool to access ext2 and ext3 partitions under windows. For ext4 I don't know.

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samuraitux

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From: Cashville

Registered: 2009-02-04

Posts: 9

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Re: Partitioning advice

I would create a primary partition with ext3 for /boot with about 100mb then an LVM for where you would have one maybe for swap (x1.5 ram) then about 30gb or 40gb for / and 200gb /home then 100gb or 200gb for windows.  With LVM if you run out of space you can always add or extend your current size.  I would use JFS for both / and /home. Since it creates inodes on the fly. But if you know you won't have several small files then I would use reiserfs.

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