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On Saturday 28 Sep 2013 16:06:39 Dale wrote: |
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> Michael Hampicke wrote: |
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> > Am 28.09.2013 13:32, schrieb Tanstaafl: |
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> >> On 2013-09-27 7:10 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >>> No really,*why exactly*? |
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> >> |
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> >> Because that was the RECOMMENDED WAY IN THE GENTOO HANDBOOK when I first |
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> >> set this system up many years ago. |
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> > Where did you read that? According to the 2004 handbook the default |
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> > partition scheme was: |
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> > Partition Filesystem Size Description |
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> > /dev/hda1 ext2 32M Boot partition |
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> > /dev/hda2 (swap) 512M Swap partition |
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> > /dev/hda3 ext3 Rest of the disk Root partition |
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> http://web.archive.org/web/20040419042803/http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/hand |
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> book/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 |
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> I guess I got mine from the handbook back in early 2003. That is when I |
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> did my first install. |
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> Also, as I stated, I have / and /boot on regular partitions and |
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> everything else on LVM. Care to guess why I don't have / on a LVM too? |
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> Yep, to avoid the init thingy. I don't have /boot on LVM because grub |
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> didn't support it. |
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> Dale |
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I recall that in 2003 the separate /usr was shown as an option of multi- |
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partition install, rather than the 'recommended' way to install gentoo. Many |
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followed it and some stayed with it. In those heady days of slow ATA drives, |
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moving a partition closer to the start of the disk also made a difference in |
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access/read/write speeds. Even with SATA 1.0 I used to get some noticeable |
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difference, although I never ran any benchmarks at the time. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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