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Hello to everyone, |
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I just bought a 250 GB SSD and I'm planning to install Gentoo on it. I've read |
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the Gentoo Wiki page on this and searched Google for hints on this, but since |
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I found out that much information was either contradictory or outdated, I'm |
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asking anyone with first-hand experience on this for advice. |
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My system is as follows: |
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- 250GB SSD |
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- 1TB HDD |
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- 16GB RAM |
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I'm planning to partition the SSD this way: |
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- 100 GB -> / (on my current system, / is about 70GB) |
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- 100 GB -> /home |
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- 16 GB -> swap (mainly for hibernation) |
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- 200 MB -> /boot |
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/var/tmp/portage should go into a tmpfs (12GB). |
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I've read that someone suggested putting also /tmp on a tmpfs. Right now, on |
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my system /tmp is less than 100 MB, so I believe this should cause no |
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problems, but is it necessary? |
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Large files, such as Steam games and maybe distfiles should instead go on the |
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1TB HDD. |
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I have some doubts about the swap partition. With 16 GB of RAM I shouldn't |
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usually need swap except for hibernating (that's the reason I'm putting it on |
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the SSD); however, I fear that compiling some large packages could fill all |
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that space. Would it be bad to have the swap partition on the SSD used this |
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way every now and then? Should I create another swap partition on the HDD and |
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give it higher priority? |
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What do you think? Do you have any advice on how to best set up such a system? |
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Thanks in advance |
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Stefano |