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Disclaimer : Disclaimer : The original version of this article was first published on IBM developerWorks, and is property of Westtech Information Services. This document is an updated version of the original article, and contains various improvements made by the Gentoo Linux Documentation team. This document is not actively maintained. Partition planning tips 1. How to keep things organized on disk Have you noticed how many new filesystems are now available for Linux these days? Not only ReiserFS, but also SGIs XFS and IBMs own JFS (in source form) are now available for Linux. What an incredible selection! And, of course, we also have the Coda filesystem as well as good old ext2. As usual, choice is an excellent thing. In this collection of tips, well be looking at another area where we have lots of freedom -- how to organize partitions on disk. Regardless of which new-fangled filesystem you are using, good partition layout is essential. Here are three tips that will help to keep things organized. Dont partition the entire drive These days, new machines often have 20 or 34 gigabytes of storage on a single drive. These drivesare great, but theycreate a new problem: how exactly do you partition these things? Many of us can only conceive of filling up 12 GB, and thats if we actually tried to fill things up. Instead of partitioning the entire drive during installation, you may want to consider partitioning only the portion of the drive that you know you will actually use. Later, when youve figured out how to use the 22 GB of free space sitting at the end of your drive, youll have a better idea of how to partition it. Then, you can fire up fdisk or cfdisk and create a partition that meets your exact needs. For now, create partitions that are large enough to hold your current files, plus allow for future growth. Dont worry, the free space at the end of your drive will still be there when you need it. Partition for backups My second organizational tip will help your backu