Partition Idea

[animex2]

Computer has 2 Hard Drives

Drive 1 - 20 gig

Drive 2 - 80 gig

Drive 1 will be formated to NTFS for windows xp and dvd iso making (to back up my movies)

Drive 2 - 70 gig Fat32 for windows games and linux games

100 meg of ext2 (mandrake 9.1 boot)
256 meg of linux swap
9 gig 644 meg of ext3 (for mandrake 9.1 files and utilties)

Does this sound good with what i got?

[alsh]

sounds good except fat32 cant be 70gigs in size... I think its 30somethin I forget. I got 3 fat32 partitions because of that size limitation though.

[animex2]

really? my 80 gig drive was Fat32 for 2 years.

[ZJF]

uhm...FAT 32 supports up to 2 terrabytes

[EnigmaOne]

Originally posted by alsh
sounds good except fat32 cant be 70gigs in size... I think its 30somethin I forget. I got 3 fat32 partitions because of that size limitation though.

IIRC, that used to be a BIOS issue quite a while back.
You might want to check your BIOS revision, if the 32GB limit has been an issue for you. I'm certain that there's some flash out there for you.

[AussieJohn]

No such problem with Win2000 Pro when Service Pack 3 added. Besides XP, all other Windows formats cannot handle very large Gb partitions. Another reason to move to Linux ( I personally recommend Mandrake 9.1)

Cheers

[legelf]

Looks good but I would consider a smaller swap (125Mb). The size of your swap depends on the amount of memory installed. I,ve allways used 125Mb for my swap without any problems. This I think is still very large for my system as I have 352Mb of RAM.

The seperate '/boot' partiition is a good idea for the future installation of another distro along side what you have already.

[alsh]

hmm I stand corrected then :) My XP wont let me make them over 32, but thats in disk management so mabye thats why? My mobo is only a year old and it has the latest bios.

[The_Stimpy]

animex2 --
I would make you windows partition smaller and your linux partitions bigger, maybe include a /usr and /home slice, and I agree with legelf about the size of your swap I have a friend that has a gig of ram and he still only uses 128 swap space. I'm not sure so feel free to correct me (nicely) :) I think that linux has a problem with NTFS so if you want to be able to access your windows partition from liunx like I do, you may want to think about that.

Linux Registered User #308851

[ZJF]

thus far, ntfs can only be read from in linux...so if you wanna write to a partition, set it for fat32 in windows, or leave everything ext2 or reiserfs

[Modorf]

my $.02

boot partion doesn't need to be that big, you can get away with a 10mg /boot. Not sure how many kernels your planning to store, but more than 2 or 3 seems silly to me. Also I would go with ext3 for /boot. Ext3 is ext2 compatable and added the log file (a good thing to have).

As for NTFS -- NTFS is a kernel plug-in, which can be compiled as a module or in the kernel. There is issues with writing to NTFS, but it can be done, but be forwarned there is file system corruption potentials. I would just stick to NTFS read (no known issues).

Nathan.

[Resident_Geek]

Originally posted by ZJF
uhm...FAT 32 supports up to 2 terrabytes
According to every source I've seen, read, or met:
FAT16 supports up to 2 GB.
FAT32 supports up to 32 GB
NTFS supports up to 2 TB.
I think Win XP and maybe a few others work around the FAT32 limitation, because most programs work OK on a 60 gig HD formatted FAT32. However, I've had several programs that report free disk space report total space as 32 GB, I guess because they use the official commands to get it and not the worked-around commands. I have no idea if any of the information in those last sentences are true, but that's my theory. Anyone who knows care to enlighten this poor cretin?

[ZJF]

it's 2 terabytes
http://www.project9.com/fat32/
and here it is straight from M$:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q154997