Re: hard drives - upgrades n stuff

Ken Lai (min-ken.lai@yale.edu)
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 23:15:46 -0500 (EST)

> The large drive would contain a small shared data partition for moving
> stuff between linux and windows. It would also contain partitions for
> /usr, /var and /home

I do have a "shared" FAT32 partition that I use for storage of shared
stuff and junk in general. It has consistently grown at the expense
of the win98 partition. (I keep the two partitions separate so I can
mount them with different permissions.)

One nice thing to have is a shared swap partition between doze and linux.
I keep a 100MB partition on my 'doze drive that I use for swap in both
OS's (though I haven't booted 'doze in months); this way, memory swapping
(which happens too much for me) and other disk activity won't interfere
with each other.

> Another question regarding multiple hard drives: would it be more
> efficient to create seperate swap partitions on each hard drive?

I think it is recommended that you spread your swap over different drives:
linux can use them in a raid-ish formation that makes swap faster.

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