Hi there,

I just recently wiped out windoze completely on my system and am now going with linux all the way.

This has freed up some harddrive space so I zeroed my drives to start fresh. However I have a question as to how to partition my drives.

I am running the use 10.1 installer. My discs and partitions setup looks like this

DISK 1 250GB

/
SWAP
/HOME
/VMware - obvious, for my various VMs

DISK 2 250GB

/storagemain - where I keep all my pictures and movies etc.


Now /, /home and swap are all setup automatically. When I go to create my /VMware partition and my /storagemain partition i get asked if the partitions should by primary or extended. I seems I can make them primary but I am not sure whats best.

Any help would be great

Christopher.

I disk can maximum go to 4 primary partition, extended partition is something like primary but you will assign child partition on top of extended partition.
In my opinion, partition for vmware can make it as extented. Because in your condition you can only add in 1 primary or 1 extended partition in your 1st disk.
For 2nd disk, up to you. However, what file system you going to use to keep the data? Somebody recommend that using xfs to handle large file.

Hi there,

XFS is what I run on all my filesystems. But I am open to a different idea.


As for the Vmware parition, since I can have four primary partitions would there be a disadvantage to making it my final primary partition ?

C.

you can use let vmware use the primary as final partition. But my opinion is just in case of you want to add in 1 more partition in disk 1, then you have big problem. Probably you need to remove vmware partion and recreate it in extended partition rather than resize it.

Thanks for the response.

I understand the concern but the VMware partiton will be my final partition on this disk, I will therefore make it primary.

Thanks for the help
C.