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On 09/12/2021 19:27, pat@××××××××.org wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I've bought a new SSD and I want to install gentoo on it. I'd like to |
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> heare some suggestions how to partition it. I'm planning small /boot |
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> partition, / partition and /data (including home) partition. But I'm not |
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> sure if I should create a swap partition or swap to file. I'm daily |
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> hibernating the system to disk. And what should be the size od the swap |
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> same as RAM or bigger? |
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Swap partition. That's ALWAYS best if you can. |
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Bear in mind, I believe it hibernates into swap, so you need to be able |
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to dump your active system into swap. So for safety's sake your swap |
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should at least equal your ram. The old rule was swap should be twice |
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ram, but there are arguments for and against (in these days of huge ram |
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I generally allocate "swap = *max* ram" on EACH of my hard disks). On |
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rotating rust that's not much - when you have a mobo that takes four |
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16GB chips and your SSD is 256GB that's a lot ... |
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You only need about 32GB for / - I think I run about 20GB used, but you |
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need to configure portage to use tmpfs for as much as possible. It's all |
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the "useful" files it leaves lying around that use up the space. |
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Beyond this, not knowing how big your ram and swap actually are, it's |
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hard to provide better advice ... |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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