mikshaw
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Posted: Mar. 05 2006,15:20 |
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reiserfs is another filesystem, which has been coming into more common use over the last few years. On my system I have DSL on ext2, and /home/dsl is on reiserfs. If you go with multiple partitions, the ext2 partition needs to be large enough only for DSL, but you might want it larger just in case you want to add anything to that partition, such as a backup or mydsl extensions. Basically make it whatever you want, over 50mb.
The size of swap doesn't really matter. If you have a lot of ram you don't really need it, but it's always best to have it just in case it's needed. Typically swap partitions are 1-2x the mount of physical ram. I have a 1024mb swap with 256mb ram...this is huge overkill (256mb swap in DSL would probably have been plenty). I had planned on adding a lot more ram when i made the partitions, but that never happened.
If you go with a second linux partition for data, that's where most of the space will be needed. As I said, I used reiserfs for this partition, but it is up to you...ext3 should work fine too. The reason I tend to stay away from ext2 these days is just because i don't want to have to do maintenance on it. If you write to it a lot, you may frequently need to fsck it to keep data (particularly large files) from becoming corrupted.
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