Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation on how to format my new drive

On Wednesday 22 November 2006 22:28, Eric Bohn wrote:
> Absolute minimum:
>
> 1. Windows:  Type=NTFS Size=10GB + however much more space you want for
> Windows. 2. Linux Swap:  Type=swap Size=ram size
> 3. Gentoo:  Type=ext3 Size=10GB + however much space you want for Linux.
>
> Recommended:
>
> 1. Windows:  Type=NTFS Size=10GB
> 2. Linux Swap:  Type=swap Size=ram size
> 3. Linux Boot:  Type=ext2 Size=128MB mountpoint: "/boot"
> 4. Gentoo:  Type=ext3 Size=10GB mountpoint: "/"
> 5. Shared:  Type=fat32 Size=Rest of drive mountpoint="/mnt/shared"
>
> The boot partition is separate for security reasons.  You'll need to set up
> your boot loader to load the kernel from /boot, and set up fstab to not
> mount the /boot partition by default.  The shared partition is probably
> where you will want to install most of your Windows programs, media files,
> and anything you want to be able to share between OS's.

some problems with your layout:

128mb for /boot is way to much. vmlinuz is ca 1.5MB big. The rest of the stuff 
is maybne another 1.5MB. So 3MB per installed kernel. How many kernels do you 
want to install? 40?

10gb for everything is not enough. /var alone needs several gb. /usr/portage 
needs several gb, he certainly want to save some stuff. My portage&var 
partition has a size of 20GB - and 11GB are used (partly, because I don't 
remove distfiles...). If he ever wants to install anything that needs lots of 
temp space, he will hit a wall - hard.

It is not save nor smart not to have a /home partition, for several reasons. 
Security, save from filling up / accidentally, and ease of switching between 
different distributions.

A big 'shared' partition - why? Is there anything needed in linux, that has to 
be in windows too? And even if the answer is yes, 10GB should be enough.
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