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Am Freitag 26 Februar 2010 schrieb Paul Hartman: |
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> Hi, I'm building a new personal computer. I respect the opinion and |
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> experience of the people on this list and am interested in anyone's |
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> advice on the best way to set up my new Gentoo installation. Things |
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> that you say "I wish I set mine up this way the first time..." or have |
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> learned from experience how to do it right the first time already. :) |
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> Some topics I'm thinking about (comments welcome): |
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> - be aware of cylinder boundaries when partitioning (thanks to the |
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> recent thread) |
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Indeed. ;-) |
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I just applied that knowledge again yesterday on a friend’s new laptop. |
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> - better partitioning scheme than my current root, boot, home (need |
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> portage on its own, maybe /var as well?) |
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I use the root/boot/home scheme as well (500GB laptop drive). Though I used |
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ReiserFS in an image file on / file system for a while, but dropped it later. |
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Using an image file saves from fiddling with partitions and FS resizing in the |
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process. |
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> - some kind of small linux emergency/recovery partition? equivalent to |
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> a liveCD maybe. |
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I always wanted to make my own Gentoo-based livecd that fits onto my old 128M |
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stick. :o) |
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> - SSD vs 10000rpm vs big-and-cheap hard drive for rootfs/system files. |
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> I lean toward the latter since RAM caches it anyway. |
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I’m still caucios about SSDs because of their limited lifetime. I would only |
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use it for /home or my media archive. But for the latter, it would become |
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over-expensive fast, for they are more pricey by the GB than all other things. |
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If it shall be a quiet system, I’d look into 2,5" drives, they also use less |
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power than 3,5", on the other hand they are of course more expensive. :) |
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> - omit/reduce number of reserved-for-root blocks on partitions where |
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> it's not necessary. |
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I’ve set it to 0 on my home partition. I also reduced the inode count on my |
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media, home and X-Plane partition. None of those have more than 60000 in use |
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at the moment, whereas mkfs had given them about 3 to 4 million by default. |
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I’m not sure though if that gives me any more available space. |
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Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' |
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