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pat@××××××××.org wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I've bought a new SSD and I want to install gentoo on it. I'd like to |
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> heare some suggestions how to partition it. I'm planning small /boot |
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> partition, / partition and /data (including home) partition. But I'm |
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> not sure if I should create a swap partition or swap to file. I'm |
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> daily hibernating the system to disk. And what should be the size od |
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> the swap same as RAM or bigger? |
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> Thanks |
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> Pat |
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This is some info from my system. I use KDE and the size of /usr is a |
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bit large since I have Kicad and some other software I can't recall the |
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name of installed. Kicad has some huge libraries installed so it takes |
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up a little over 5GBs of space on its own. That said, allowing extra |
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space if you don't use something like LVM that can be expanded is a good |
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idea. Software is growing. You may need to add some directories |
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together depending on how or even if you have separate partitions for |
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some things. Ignore /home here. Info: |
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root@fireball / # du -shc /* |
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144G /backup |
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11M /bin |
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159M /boot |
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33M /etc |
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8.4T /home |
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1.8G /lib |
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19M /lib64 |
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16K /lost+found |
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24K /mnt |
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741M /opt |
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0 /proc |
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193M /root |
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1.6M /run |
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16M /sbin |
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5.8M /tmp |
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20G /usr |
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21G /var |
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8.6T total |
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root@fireball / # |
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In the past, I had log files go weird and fill up /var. Since then, |
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I've put /var on a separate partition. On mine, yours may be as well, |
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the portage tree, distfiles and packages are also in /var. |
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If you need additional info, just post back. Otherwise, hope this helps. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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