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From: Kevin Hanson <tuxpert@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: disk partitioning
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:34:37
Message-Id: 45C92BFC.2020503@comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: disk partitioning by Kevin Hanson
1 Kevin Hanson wrote:
2 > Duncan wrote:
3 >> Mikko Husari <husku@×××××.net> posted 45C82D9C.7010601@×××××.net,
4 >> excerpted below, on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:26:20 +0200:
5 >>
6 >>
7 >>> hi!
8 >>>
9 >>> i was wonderin (also tried my luck on perfomance-gentoo, but no one
10 >>> home), what kind of partition + fs table would be optimal on server
11 >>> and/or desktop. afaik, /usr/portage would be on its own partition, and
12 >>> perhaps reiserfs and raid0. distfiles should be on a different
13 >>> partition, so it would not be in the way of portage itself... but, what
14 >>> about other parts of gentoo/linux. and is journaling filesystem over
15 >>> striping raid just asking for trouble?
16 >>>
17 >>
18 >> I'm running a 300-gig/disk, 4-SATA-disk, kernel RAID here, and /love/
19 >> it!
20 >>
21 >> Each of the four disks is partitioned identically to the others, with
22 >> the
23 >> corresponding partitions on each grouped in the corresponding RAIDs.
24 >>
25 >> /dev/md0 (on /dev/sd[a..d]1) is raid-1, necessary for boot, since that's
26 >> all grub and the like understand, but that's all that's on the raid-1.
27 >>
28 >>
29 > <SNIP>
30 >
31 > Duncan,
32 >
33 > Did you look in to EVMS at all. I am setting up a similar system to
34 > yours...4 stat disk, linux raid, etc. However, I really wanted to use
35 > EVMS and am only partially successful. I have, as of now, been able
36 > to get the EVMS stuff correctly in initrd such that I can complete a
37 > boot.
38 >
39 > Just curious if you'd looked into EVMS at all and if you had any
40 > thoughts.
41 >
42 > Cheers,
43 > Kevin
44 Wow...I didn't type well in the above message...it's supposed to be
45 'sata' not 'stat' disk...
46 And I was trying to say "I have, as of now, NOT been able...."
47
48 Cheers,
49 Kevin
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[gentoo-desktop] Re: disk partitioning Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>