[NCLUG] Linux Partitioning

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 03:29:40PM -0800, Prescott Oelke wrote:
> Kind of a newbie question: How can I put 2 parts of the directory structure
>on one partition and keep the rest on another during an install? I want to
>put /boot and /var on a small 1GB partition and put the rest on my larger
>29GB partition but I'm not quite sure how to go about it. Also if anyone

When it asks what partitions you want, say you want /boot to be 50MB,
/var to be 1GB-50MB, and / to be 29GB.  If you are talking about
"discs" instead of "partitions", the installer should allow you to
specify what discs each partition goes on, simply put /boot and
/var on one, and / on the other.

>knows, could someone explain the difference between the reiserfs and the
>regular ext2 fs. SuSE offers both on install and I don't know which to use
>for what.

/boot has to be ext2, the others can be reiser.  ext2 is more stable,
reiser doesn't need fscking like ext2 does, so it'll probably be a
win for you.  Especially on a 30GB disc.  I run reiser on my 80GB
MP3 disc because I don't want hour+ fsck times.

Search google for "reiserfs" or "reiserfs vs ext2" if you want all the
details.

Sean
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