Two disks, one distro
 

Okay, so I've decided to join the Gentoo corner of the playyard, but I don't really know how to set up the partitions.

I have two physical disks, /dev/hda/ and /dev/hdb/. hda houses WinXP, and hdb houses FC3. I want to use the capacity of both of these (120 GB each).

On hda I intend to place both /boot and /swap, and on the rest of hda and spilling onto hdb will be /. (No connection to that *other* /. )

Using fdisk, I can clear the partition table for both disks (and I already have), and I can add /boot and /swap to hda, but I don't know how to extend / to the rest of hda and all of hdb. Is this where primary and extended partitions take place? I don't understand any of this. Could someone enlighten me, or point me somewhere?

I don't know how to do exactly what you're speaking about - I not sure if it's possible. Maybe you could setup some kind of software RAID?

What I would do would be to choose a few directories to mount on hdb - maybe /home, /opt etc. Of course this doesn't give you the kind of flexibility you desire. You would have to set partition sizes at this point in time.

Daniel

I thought about that last suggestion, but because /opt, /bin, /usr, /lib, /etc don't need very much space, they too would likely sit on hda.

The greatest partition would undoubtedly be /home because I need to house lots of video and audio files, so that's what would fill the majority of hda and all of hdb.

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Their's a solution for your problem of combining space of your hard disk's. In linux we use LVM2 (Logical Volume Manager) for it. I don't know anything of Gentoo. But read LVM Howto from LDP. May be there's a LVM installation option present in Gentoo.

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