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On Sat, Sep 15 2012, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 120915 Allan Gottlieb wrote: |
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>> I just received a new laptop (dell 6430s) with a 256GB SSD |
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>> and naturally want to install Gentoo. This is my first with an SSD. |
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>> I reinstalled Windows shrinking the large partition very considerably |
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> That much is what I did with my EEE netbook 2008 . |
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> M$ has 2 uses : when you need to test things with your ISP, |
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> who is familiar with the Windows configuration process ; |
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> when you want to play bridge with the machine (no bridge for Linux !). |
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I don't play bridge but do find windows also useful when dealing with |
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dell if there are any hardware issues. |
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>> My plan is to have root+usr on one "native partition" to appease |
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>> the oracle at udev and the rest on lvm2 as in my current configuration. |
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> It's working very well & I've dropped LVM. |
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I toyed with that thought after the udev business, but eventually |
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decided to stay with LVM. |
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> My partitions on the SSD are (new box, old box assigned, old box used): |
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> SSD sda 1 boot 0,6 0,1 0,06 /boot |
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> 2 root 30 20 3,55 / incl : opt usr var |
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> 3 swap 4 4 -- swap |
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> 5 home 30 20 6,84 /home |
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> 6 portage 15 20 3,43 /usr/portage (distfiles 2,3) |
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> -- var -- 5 1,4 /var |
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> 7 z 41 24 1,5 /z |
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> total 121 93,1 19,45 |
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> tmpfs -- -- -- /tmp |
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I am embarrassed to say I had trouble reading the above, embarrassed |
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because it show provincial habits. I didn't even consider that , could |
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be a decimal point. Now it is clear |
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> I've put /usr/local + /usr/src on my HDD, which your laptop lacks, |
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> but you've got 128 GB more space on your SSD than I have |
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> & you wb backing it up on some other machine, I assume, |
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> so you have lots of space for more partitions for such things. |
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Correct. |
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> ( /z is a big hangar for making ISOs, testing archives, Portage tempdir). |
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> NB I've assigned vastly more space than I'm currently actually using. |
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I have the equivalent on my current system and will probably carry it |
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over as well. |
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>> I know that it is important to have ssd partitions well aligned. |
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>> It appears that fdisk is doing this automatically. |
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> Yes, iff you partition the whole disk that way. |
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> I don't know whether Dell + M$ located their partitions correctly |
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> or whether Fdisk will start at the proper place when adding more. |
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No for dell, yes for microsoft, yes for fdisk (at least emacs calc says |
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so). |
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thanks, |
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allan |
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