Re: Re: Partitioning a second hard disk

2004-09-13 Thread Thomas Stivers
On Mon, Sep 13 2004 at 03:08:54PM +1000, Scott Barlow wrote: > Thank you Andrew for your quick response. I have allowed enough for each > partition. If anything I will be wasting space which is ok for the > moment as i'm just experimenting. My computer consists of a 40gb drive > which has the insta

Re: Partitioning a second hard disk

2004-09-13 Thread Alexis Huxley
>>Can you have two /home directories on separate disks? Do I need another >>partition on the second drive as swap? I'd appreciate any help regarding this >>matter. How about, after partitioning, mounting the partition of the new disk with a filesystem as /home-extended. Create directories under t

Re: Re: Partitioning a second hard disk

2004-09-13 Thread Robert Parker
On Monday 13 September 2004 15:08, Scott Barlow wrote: > Thank you Andrew for your quick response. I have allowed enough for each > partition. If anything I will be wasting space which is ok for the > moment as i'm just experimenting. My computer consists of a 40gb drive > which has the install on

Re: Partitioning a second hard disk

2004-09-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:56:21PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > No, you don't need a second swap partition on the second drive. It > doesn't hurt to have it (except wasted space, unless the extra swap > space is needed). However, it can speed up swapping considerably, particularly if the drives ar

Re: Re: Partitioning a second hard disk

2004-09-12 Thread Scott Barlow
Thank you Andrew for your quick response. I have allowed enough for each partition. If anything I will be wasting space which is ok for the moment as i'm just experimenting. My computer consists of a 40gb drive which has the install on it and a blank 80gb drive. My /boot is around 100mb, m

Re: Partitioning a second hard disk

2004-09-12 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am a (generally) linux newbie trying to jump in the deep end of learning linux. I have read a lot of documentation on the correct way to partition a hard disk by placing /, /home, /usr, /var, /boot, /tmp and obviously /swap on their own partitions, the size requireme

Re: Partitioning a second hard disk

2004-09-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I am a (generally) linux newbie trying to jump in the deep end of learning > linux. I have read a lot of documentation on the correct way to partition > a hard disk by placing /, /home, /usr, /var, /boot, /tmp and obviously > /swap on their own partitions, the size requirements and physical layou