Your existing scheme may do, but you should be aware that ext3 and reiser are both journaling file systems, either of wihch would do for general purpose. I have rarely had occasion to use two different ones on the same system unless one of the partitions was being used for video (ext3 supposedly the best), and another for database or web (let the debate begin). It should not cause a problem but may slow down the boot process substantially. I would normally recommend ext2 for the /boot, and take your pick (I like reiser as well) for the /. I generally create a few more partitions to aid in control (one for /var - that way I don't have to worry about some runaway log file eating my file system, and then /home because I want to). Just my opinion, YMMV.

On 9/26/05, Bupkus <bupkus2@cox.net> wrote:

Darrin Chandler wrote:
> I *have* had this problem. Creating a 10MB /boot up front will save
> tons of headaches. Even though newer BIOS's have made the bootable
> area *much* larger, hard drives have gotten larger yet. On the
> downside of creating a /boot partition... oh, yeah, there's no downside.
>
I'm wondering about which types of file systems to use.
I just built a /boot partition as a Primary using ext3,
a / partition as a Primary using Reiser,
and last, a swap partition as, well... swap.
I'm hoping this will do for this nForce2 chipset with a 2004 bios.

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