Hi all,
I'm going to reinstall my debian Sid cause I bought a new, faster, hard disk, with wich I hope I can solve some slowness problems I'm having at this time. In order to have the best quickness performances I'm going to install debian at the beginning of the new hard disk, and I wonder if this will make me gain a considerable increase of speed (the gap between the two hds is about 33MB/s versus about 55 MB/s in hdparm's test) (?)
I also wonder how should I partition my hd to have the best performances of stability, security and expecially... quickness
I am now using a debian installed on a single partition (ext3), and I keep data in a dedicated large partition (reiserfs).
Would it be really convenient a partitioning with /boot, /var, /tmp, /usr all separated? if so, I would use ext2 for /boot, /var and /tmp, and reiserfs for /usr?
I don't really need a /home separate partition, I'll use $HOME only to keep some config file (.bashrc and so on), I have as already explained a standalone reiserfs partition for data.
Advise me wisely please
thanks in advance,
bye

i'm new to linux, but just from my basic computer knowledge i'd say that adding extra partitions most likely will not give you a noticeable performance boost. it's a good idea anyway though. i have my hard drive only divided into 3 partitions, /boot, swap space, and /

/boot should be ext2, and / should either be ext3 or reiserfs (if you feel comfortable with reiser, stick with that for speed)

I always do this:

swap = 1 to 2 times your RAM
/ = 200-500MB
/var = 700MB-1.5GB
/usr = about 20-30% of what's left, or at least 5GB, if possible
/home = the rest