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On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 08:37 -0700, Duncan wrote: |
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> Partitioning... If you are like me and use lots of separate partitions (I |
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> have about 20, all told), one thing you'll find is that your /usr/ needs |
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> to be bigger than with other distributions, because that's where the |
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> portage tree and all the sources are kept (unless you put the portage tree |
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> on its own partition or locate it elsewhere than the default |
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> /usr/portage/). Similarly, you may want a larger /var/ or /var/tmp/ than |
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> normal, since by default, that's where portage does all its compiling. |
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Well, I'm quite the opposite. I have /home, /boot, and /. However, if |
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you do use the lots of partitions method, you might look into using LVM. |
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I've got a junk-hardware-magnet fileserver, and in the process of |
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adding/swapping hard drives, switching to RAID, etc etc, I've discovered |
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it's quite a tiresome process when you want to play with partitions. I |
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just switched the thing over to LVM though, and it is quite impressive. |
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It will save you huge amounts of time if you will be needing to do a lot |
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of partition shuffling. |
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If it is your first time to install gentoo, it will add some complexity, |
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but will help when you realize "oh no, I need another 500mb |
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for /var/tmp/portage"... |
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Kyle Liddell |
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