With the new v3.4 of Knoppix, I was seriously looking at changing my "one partition" hdd install, into a more, appropriate, multi-partition install....

Examining the "scheme" that Rickenbacherus has suggested, I come up with the following:

hda1 - primary, bootable, ext2 FS, and of 50 MB in size.
hda2 - primary, reiser FS, and of "remaining" device size - in the example, 20 gb, or 19.95 gb.

hda2 is then broken down into chunks like so...
***** logical, reiser FS, 3 gb - for use by /root
***** logical, swap, 500 mb - for use as swap
***** logical, reiser FS, 1.5 gb - for use as /home

First, assuming the example hard drive device was a 20 gb hard drive, where does the extra space go???? ( did I miss something somewhere? ) I only count a device usage of 5.05 gb...

Is the excess "free" space on the /hda2 device intended for adding more users? ( each of them getting the approximate 1.5 gb as well? )

Second, considering I have a 41 gb hard drive, in the "current" scheme:

/hda1 - 39.5 gb in ext3 FS - for Knoppix (everything)
/hda3 - 500 mb for swap.

Could I just break up my /hda1 into two primary partitions, one as /hda1, the other as /hda2, and then forgo the swap within my /hda2 as in the above suggestion? ( since I already have the swap on the /hda3 in my current scheme )

Third, concerning the sizes suggested:
*** 1 ) is 3 gb enough for the root user, or should I bump considering I have a 41 gb hard drive.
*** 2 ) is the 1.5 gb intended for "all" users, or do you break the users /home areas off from the /home to a seperate partition. Also, should I bump the size, as in the /root above, due to having a larger drive than in the example?
*** 3 ) should I use the ext3 or the reiser for my file system? I have a 41 gb device, broken down to 39.5 gb for Knoppix, and .5 gb for swap - in ext3 - and even though I know the ext3 partition is 39.5 gb, KDiskFree only reports 37.3 gb - is this a "overhead" for using ext3, or is it just normal to not get 3.2 gb from your device in Knoppix????

I want to be able to go to this multi-partition scheme with the new kernel 2.6 install, since I usually have to "gut" my system everytime I need to upgrade, and this multi-partition scheme seems to me, to keep the /home data from having to be re-created when you need to do a new hdd install...

Thanks for any, and all, advice on this,
Ms. Cuddles