Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3653 mails)

[Mojojojo <mojojoj0@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 21 June 2002 08:04, Robert Storey wrote:
> bob@sonic:~> df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda5             197M   73M  114M  39% /
> /dev/hda3              38M  8.7M   27M  24% /boot
> /dev/hda6             3.0G  1.2G  1.6G  40% /home
> /dev/hda9             3.9G  835M  2.9G  22% /opt
> /dev/hda8            1011M  179M  781M  19% /tmp
> /dev/hda10            8.0G  2.5G  5.1G  33% /usr
> /dev/hda7             486M  112M  349M  25% /var
> shmfs                  62M     0   61M   0% /dev/shm
>
>
> The above doesn't show /dev/hda1, which is Windows, because it's not
> mounted. It also doesn't show the swap partition, which is 400 megabytes
> - you should install that near the beginning of the drive for best
> performance. /dev/shm is a virtual partition - you don't install that,
> or worry about it at all.

If you use windows just to complement linux, why not install swap on the very 
first partition.

Right now... Mine:
/hda1 -- swap
/hda2 -- /
/hda3 -- /home
/hda4 -- /boot

If /boot wasn't necesary, you can do this:
/hda1 -- swap
/hda2 -- /
/hda3 -- /home
/hda4 -- WINDOWS <---

if your hda4 is extended partition, put it on hda3
/hda1 -- swap
/hda2 -- /
/hda3 -- WINDOWS <----
/hda4 -- extended
/hda5 -- /home
/hda6 -- /var
/hda7 -- /boot

Note: To others wonder why this important, harddrive speed is not linear, it's 
faster at the inner part.