Although this falls somewhat outside the scope of this HOWTO it cannot be denied that recently some rather large drives have become very affordable. Drives with 10 - 20 GB are becoming common and the question often is how best to partition such monsters. Interestingly enough very few seem to have any problems in filling up such drives and the future looks generally quite rosy for manufacturers planning on even bigger drives.
Opportunities for optimisations are of course even smaller than for 2 drive systems but some tricks can still be used to optimise track positions while minimising head movements.
Partition hda Size estimate (MB) ---- ------------------ 1 DOS 500 2 boot 20 3 Winswap 200 4 data The bulk of the drive 5 lib 50 - 500 6 news 300+ 7 swap 128 (Maximum size for 32-bit CPU) 8 tmp 300+ (/tmp and /var/tmp) 9 /usr 50 - 500 10 /home 300+ 11 /var 50 - 300 12 mail 300+ 13 dosdata 10 ( Windows bug workaround!)
Remember that the dosdata partition is a DOS filesystem that must be the very last partition on the drive, otherwise Windows gets confused.