I'm about to set up a slackware installation, but I need some help on my partitions. Here's what I have, in order of location on hard driver:

60 gig hd @ master
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58GB NTFS - WindowsXP (primary)
2GB Linux Swap - Linux Swap (logical???)

80 gig hd @ slave
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??GB Ext3 - /boot (Primary???)
??GB Ext3 - /root (and everything else not here?) (???)
??GB Ext3 - /Home (???)
??GB Ext3 - /usr (???)
??GB ReiserFS - /music (logical???)
1GB NTFS - Windows Swap (logical???)
15MB FAT16 - 3rd party boot loader (logical)
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Can anyone please help me fill in the blanks here? I have no idea if this is a good plan, what the size of each partition is, and especially, I have no idea which ones should be logical and which ones should be primary.

Any help would be very appriciated! Please feel free to copy and edit what I wrote to fill in the blanks!

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Everything linux should be on one partition. Also have your linux swap on the same drive as linux.
59 GB with WinXP
1 GB Windows Swap
15 MB FAT32 for boot loader (I'd use LILO)

80 GB with Linux partition as
XX GB <-- Linux (/root, /boot, etc)
2 GB swap

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80GB hdb
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40GB ReiserFS - / (Primary)
40GB ReiserFS - /home (Primary)


1) Windows swap files dont need to be on their own separate partition.

2) You can put a whole linux install in a single partition (save for the swap), but I prefer to keep the /home dir seperate. Preferably on a seperate drive altogether, but you lack the hard drive space for that.

3) Theres no reason to use ext3 for the system partion. You can use ReiserFS for everything.

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GBK- I heard ReiserFS is good for many small files. I don't know what ext3's strong points are. I also hear that you should have you swap drives on opposite hard drives.

Also, shouldn't I have a seperate partition for /usr in case I want to keep my apps in the event of a distro change?

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Hm, would you recommend ReiserFS or ext3? From what I've read their performance differs depending on the file size.

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Mystic, odds are, most of your apps wont work after a distro change. ANd besides, not all apps are located in /usr, some are in /opt.


ReiserFS is good for small files, yes, and there are definatly going to be a ton of small files in the various system dirs.

...But ReiserFS does take a bit of CPU power to run fast. Not much more than ext3, but a considerable amount more than ext2. If youve got an older system, or are more worried about performance than free space, use etx2.

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I'll go with ReiserFS as I have a Pentium 4 2.6 GHz 800 FSB and 1 GB PC-3200 400 MHz DDR.

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[This message has been edited by Mystic0 (edited January 30, 2004).]