Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Question...

[Mark Kirkwood]

Benjamen R. Meyer wrote:
> I set up a server system a little while ago, and in performing updates
> to portage it ran out of disk space as I didn't quite allow enough space
> on the root partition (3.8 GB). As a result, I took a partition that I
> had cleaned up (this was from a rebuild of a system that was a different
> distro in the past) and moved over /usr/portage to it. It's a 47 GB
> partition (as reported by df -h) and the system works fine.
>
> I do realize that if the mount command got screwed up, I'd probably have
> issues recovering the system, but that is that system.
>
> I am now thinking of converting my desktop over to Gentoo as well, and
> was wondering whether what I did above on the server was wise or not. I
> will be using the server as the portage provider for my desktop too.
> Otherwise, what is the recommended space to have available for the
> portage tree in /usr/portage so I can have root as an appropriately
> sized partition?
>
>
I'd recommend having a read of:

http://www.freebsd-howto.com/HOWTO/Filesystem-Layout-HOWTO

Now, although its a Freebsd resource, the ideas apply equally well to 
Linux (or UNIX for that matter - though you can skip where it discusses 
Freebsd partition and slice naming). In particular it discusses why 
separating /, /usr, /var, /tmp, /home is well worth doing - even tho it 
wasts a bit of space!

I used build systems with / including /usr and /var .... but these days 
I do not make these part of / (for reasons covered in the article).

The downside is you end up with a lot of partitions and filesystems to 
figure out how to size - but you can use LVM make it a bit more 
forgiving if you need to resize them.

Cheers

Mark
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