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On Thursday 16 February 2006 13:19, Izar Ilun wrote: |
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> I'm installing Gentoo and I'd like you to suggest me how much disc space I |
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> should use for /. |
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> My machine is Pentium4, 1GB RAM, 200 GB HD ATA |
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> It's a desktop machine with Gentoo as the only and exclusive OS. |
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> Will run KDE. Amarok, OpenOffice, firefox.... |
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> Thanx! |
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40-60gb for / |
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2GB swap |
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15MB /boot |
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rest /home |
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you'll never fill up root, so making a lot of partitions is just wasted space. |
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Plus, when /tmp or /var are full you are f* anyway, so no reason to put them |
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on their own partition. Additionally, the more partitions, the more useless |
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head movement, the slower data transfer the earlier the harddisk dies. |
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And yes, I once put all and everything on its own partition. |
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I learnt the hard way, that this does not solve problems, it creates them. |
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