I want to run mepis and I want to reformat my hda:

hda1-ntfs-primary-5gb
=======extended-hda2========
hda3-/boot-70mb
hda4-/root-4gb
hda-/swap-mb
hda6-/var-3gb
hda7-/tmp-500mb
======================
hda8-/home-primary-balance 50gb or something
hda9-/music-primary-10gb
hda10-/usr-primary-5gb



They will all be reiser and my only concern is a partition recovery utility (like testdisk).
testdisk will only find/reconstruct for primary partitons...hence the primaries I chose.

I may also put my music in my home directory. Any suggestions?

mepis is based on debian

thanks.

machiner

Can't you only have 4 Primary partitions?

You have 5 in that scheme.

nossir -- I have 4.

ntfs
/home
/music
/usr

But I may include /music in the /home partition

THanks for your response

machiner

I'm sorry if I was incorrect, I believed that the extended section occupied a primary partition. You have it labeled as hda2

On my drive I have
hda1 - ntfs 40GB
hda2 - extended
- hda5 - Fat32 /mnt/data (Balance of 80GB)
- hda6 - reiser / (15GB)
- hda7 - reiser /home (1GB)
- hda8 - swap (1GB)
(the idea being that windows deals only with the first half of the disk, and linux only with the last, I know it doesn't quite work like that, but it's a nice theory)

So I believed that the first four (ie hd*1 - hd*4) are the primary partitions, and that the extended partition containing the logical partitions is itself a primary partition. Is this not the case? If it is, then one of your home/music/usr has to be in the extended partition.

With regards to the partitions themselves (the actual topic of this thread), I would question whether you need a 50 Gig home drive. I don't know how much you use windows, or how many users use your rig, but I keep all my files in my 18GB Fat32 drive, which has a Downloads and a Documents directory. This is mainly because I use windows still for most of my word processing stuff. (It also means when I hose an installation that most of the special installers are ok, but I suppose that a large home directory would achieve the same purpose).

I have tried other partition schemes, and find that putting everything bar home in one partition allows the directories to fight it out among themselves, without having to worry about them getting too big for the partition. An example is the /var directory in Gentoo, which often contains alot of data, particularly when compiling something big like Open Office (my friend tells me I'm crazy), but that particular example probably isn't relevant if you're not using a source based distro. Music on home would be a good idea for the same reason.

You can only have 4 primary and if all 4 are used without the last being an extended logical drive, you only have 4 partitions. So in essence you can have 4 and the 4 one as a logical extended drive with many other partitions on it, etc.

There are ways around this with certain programs but I don't see a reason for this really.

And in the future and the main reason I replied to this thread was to let you know to use better and more descriptive titles in the future, your's is one of the worst I've seen and doesn't have anything to do with your thread.

Regards.

It's not as bad as the "no" ones from a while back.



Also, the extended drive hda2 will have the first logical drive start at hda5 not hda3, as correctly outlined in bjmurph's post.

I suppose that's why he thought you had all primary partitions.

At least they had a legit excuse in why they were saying "no" for their title. They thought they were answering the button that asks "Has this been asked before?" that links you to search your title, etc.

I didn't know that.

That makes sense.... I guess.

And that's one of the worst examples of grammar I've seen! "your's is"?! Deary me...I think you're looking for "yours is"

Lets get this back on subject. We're not talking about grammar but instead thread titles?