[64studio-devel] Many Questions

[Susan Dridi]

Dennis Schulmeister wrote:
> Hi Susan,
> 
> first of all, welcome to 64Studio and welcome to the mailing list.
> 
>> And when I partition my second hard drive, is there a convention about
>> what to call it? I was going to call it /music and symlink it under my
>> home directory, but I don't know if there are rules about this, since
>> I've never needed more than one hard drive before.
> 
> I don't think there are any hard rules on this. Just do what fits your
> needs.
> 
> What I found good for me was simply mounting the second hard drive
> as /home. This way I have a system disc and a data disc. By separating
> those two entities disc performance should increase as the system can
> access "its" disc while any applications can access "their" disc at the
> same time.
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Dennis Schulmeister

Hi Dennis,

Thanks for the welcome:)

I had heard that it was a good idea to keep the system files and the
music files on separate drives, to reduce drive seek time. Plus music
files can be soooo big. Hmmm, well, so many ways of doing things.

So, I ended up using my old partitioning scheme, which my friend who got
me on Linux a few years ago recommended:

/	1GB
/swap	3GB
/usr	the rest of the first drive
and then move home, var, and tmp to usr and symlink and sync them. It's
always worked for me. Then I partitioned my big hard drive as /music and
symlinked it to my regular user directory.

One weird thing is that there's a lost and found directory on my /music
drive. Do I need it? Also, the partition manager wanted to put a swap
partition on that drive, which I didn't let it do. Should I have?

I thought that 2GB DDR2 667 RAM, plus 3GB swap on my first hard drive 
was enough. Mainly, I didn't want to slow things down.

It's really no big deal to just do it all over, since this is a brand
new machine and I don't have any music projects yet.

Take care,

-Susan