HOWTO: Multi Disk System Tuning

22. Appendix B: Partitioning Layout Table: Numbering and Sizing

This table follows the same logical structure as the table above where you decided what disk to use. Here you select the physical tracking, keeping in mind the effect of track positioning mentioned earlier in Physical Track Positioning.

The final partition number will come out of the table after this.

  Drive           sda     sdb     sdc     hda     hdb     hdc     ___

SCSI ID         |  __   |  __   |  __   |

Directory
swap            |       |       |       |       |       |       |

/               |       |       |       |       |       |       |

/tmp            |       |       |       |       |       |       |

/var            :       :       :       :       :       :       :
/var/tmp        |       |       |       |       |       |       |
/var/spool      :       :       :       :       :       :       :
/var/spool/mail |       |       |       |       |       |       |
/var/spool/news :       :       :       :       :       :       :
/var/spool/____ |       |       |       |       |       |       |

/home           |       |       |       |       |       |       |

/usr            |       |       |       |       |       |       |
/usr/bin        :       :       :       :       :       :       :
/usr/lib        |       |       |       |       |       |       |
/usr/local      :       :       :       :       :       :       :
/usr/local/bin  |       |       |       |       |       |       |
/usr/local/lib  :       :       :       :       :       :       :
/usr/local/____ |       |       |       |       |       |       |
/usr/src        :       :       :       :

DOS             |       |       |       |       |       |       |
Win             :       :       :       :       :       :       :
NT              |       |       |       |       |       |       |

/mnt.___/_____  |       |       |       |       |       |       |
/mnt.___/_____  :       :       :       :       :       :       :
/mnt.___/_____  |       |       |       |       |       |       |
/_____________  :       :       :       :       :       :       :
/_____________  |       |       |       |       |       |       |
/_____________  :       :       :       :       :       :       :


Total capacity: