Dagmar d'Surreal's Journal: Long time, still no C

For those interested, I did nab a decent motherboard and various other parts to build a proper box, which it's almost time to replace again (although it's far from super-critical). For the record it's now got the aforementioned 120Gb drive, an Athlon Pro1800+ CPU, 768Mb of the appropriate speed RAM, and a 128Mb GeForce FX5200 video AGP card in it. ...and a nice case with a handle built in. The specific motherboard model is the MSI KT4VL http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=KT4VL.

It also has a bajillion partitions on the one drive, which are organized as follows:

1: ~38Gb NTFS, /winxp
17: ~8Gb VFAT, /shared

8: ~512Mb swap partition
16: ~10gb ext3, /home
15: ~1Gb ext3, /tmp
18: ~30gb ext3, /space

(Custom built Linux filesystem)
5: ~192Mb reiserfs, /
9: ~512Mb reiserfs, /var
12: ~8Gb reiserfs, /usr

(Slackware 10.0 filesystem - Legacy & going away)
6: ~192Mb reiserfs, /
10: ~512Mb reiserfs, /var
13: ~8Gb reiserfs, /usr

(Slackware 10.1 filesystem - Primary devel space)
7: ~192Mb reiserfs, /
12: ~512Mb reiserfs, /var
15: ~8Gb reiserfs, /usr

Now, I know that some people might be raising a little eyebrow about having quite so many partitions on one machine, let alone one disk. The point of it is that with this setup, I can keep the same /home (as well as /tmp and /space) directory across all three systems, and merrily do whatever I need to do to any of them, knowing if something goes horribly wrong I can just reboot and get at one of the other two, but that's just a minor thing. The real advantage is that I can maintain multiple sanitized build environments.