HOWTO: Multi Disk System Tuning: Appendix K: Example V: Dual Drive System

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## 31. Appendix K: Example V: Dual Drive System

A dual drive system offers less opportunity for clever schemes but the following should provide a simple starting point.

> `

>     Partition       sda             sdb
>                     ----            ----
>             1       boot            lib
>             2       swap            news
>             3       /tmp            swap
>             4       /usr            /var/tmp
>             5       /var            /home
>             6       / (root)

> `

If you use a dual OS system you have to keep in mind that many other systems must boot from the first partition on the first drive. A simple DOS / Linux system could look like this:

> `

>     Partition       sda             sdb
>                     ----            ----
>             1       DOS             lib
>             2       boot            news
>             3       swap            swap
>             4       /tmp            /var/tmp
>             5       /usr            /home
>             6       /var            DOSTEMP
>             7       / (root)

> `

Also remember that DOS and Windows prefer there to be just a single primary partition which has to be the first one where it boots from. As Linux can happily exist in logical partitions this is not a big problem.

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