Suggested Partition Setup

[dsf260]

I have purchased a WD1200JB (120GB) to put in a USB 1.1 enclosure. It will primarily be used for mp3 and picture storage.

I was wondering if anyone had a recommended partition strategy for the drive. I have read about needing a ext3 partition to enable some features (swapfile? rootfs?) and that WinXP isn't able to set up a large FAT32 partition, but after that, I'm not sure of a) what to do b) exactly how to do it and c) how the multiple partitions are accessed in the filesystem.

I don't think this has been covered in a HOWTO, but I could be wrong, so if it is there, please point me to it. Otherwise, any suggestions would be greatly apprciated.

[WlanMan]

Hi

I would suggest you create at first one big Fat32 Partition to store your normal Data on, and after this you can make a secound primary partition with ext3 Filesystem where you can copy the firmware to if needet (gets you no-pain read-write access to all system files). If you like, create a swap partition at last. Maybe helpfull to some degree with memory-consuming aplications. i would suggest 32mb.

All this can be done with Partition Magic under Windows.
The Fat32 should be the First Partition, so it gehts auto-mounted as usual.
The RootFS and Swap partitons get mounted with some settings in the router, so theyre position is not significant.

Greets