Some of this info may be outdated. Someone please correct me if this is the case.

Reiser FS supposedly performs better. Especially if you have directories with large number of small files. However, unlike EXT3 (and many other so called Journalling FS), it does not journal data being written. Therefore, if there is a unclean drive shutdown, even though the file metadata will alwasy be correct, (therefore there is no need to run disk checking utility), the files themselves have a much higher chance of being hosed. (corrupt data from unfinished or interrupted write operations).

EXT3 also has the advantage of being EXT2 backwards compatible. An EXT3 filesystem can, at any time, be mounted on a computer or kernel that supports EXT2.

More swap space is not really better. Try going with 2x RAM as you max.. It won't hurt anything to have the swap space, but its' just wasted drive space. If you later decide I was wrong, you can always resize one of your partitions and create a second swap space.

Tip: If you have two hard drives on SCSI bus or on separate IDE bus, and the drives are relatively equal in performace (probably not the case, your 80 GB will likely be newer and much faster), create a swap partion on both. Linux will then even split the swap load over the two drives, effectively doubling your swap performance.

the whole point of having the swap on the larger and on a seperate drive then the linux drive is because if i am doing something on the linux drive and it then needs to add stufff to the partition it wont slow the linux drive as it will qwriting to another drive and only reading from the linux drive ? it wokrs perfectly in windows and you can notice the difference?

also can u resize partition inlinux without losing data ?

Snake

Yeah, but linux aint' windows.. How much do you expect to be hitting on /usr /var? on a 5 user system, the answer is "Not a bloody lot"... At most, you may find a few seconds delay the first time you start Gimp, Open Office and Mozilla. (Tip: Never close applications in Linux, use multiple Desktops to keep everything open and let Linux worry about the memory management.)

Chances are, the vast majority of your disk access will be on your 80 GB /home where you store large files, like movies and pr0n, databases, and such.

I don't think this should be a problem, though. Even if your computer doesn't access the SWAP very often, if you keep it on a different disk (providing you've already got one - don't go and buy a 2nd disk specially for this) then you may occasionally notice a difference.

As for resizing partitions without damage, you can - I've never done so, so I can't comment on how. There is another thread somewhere on this site that gives a link to it - just have a quick search.

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i cant say it enough or you help !!!!!
im off to build the computer and also waiting for redhat 7.3 the official release to download, coz im using the beta skipjack so i dont want to use that on the server but again thnaks for all the info guys!

Snake