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Thanks for your reply. So, if that were your system, how much space you |
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would give to /boot /swap / ( eliminating /opt) /home /var /tmp and /usr? |
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I just need rough numbers, so that my fresh install wouldn't get in trouble. |
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I have 256 RAM and this is 10GIGs. Thanks again. |
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On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:14:30 -0400 |
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Dave Nebinger <dnebinger@××××.com> wrote: |
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> 1. Boot should be at most ext3, but ext2 is just fine (the only thing on this |
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> partition is kernel images and grub stages). Keeping to this will mean less |
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> problems at boot time (grub users can tell you nightmares about |
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> reiserfs /boot partitions, and I'd guess that jfs would be in the same |
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> category). 50 meg is a nice round number although you can do with half that |
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> (I personally use 100mb but I've got a number of kernels installed there). |
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> 2. /opt does not need to be a separate partition. Few gentoo things go there, |
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> so it is not worth maintaining a separate partition for (and wasting the |
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> possible space). |
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> 3. /home should be a separate partition, sized to your needs. |
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> 4. I'm from the old school where we believe /var/tmp and /tmp should be |
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> separate partitions. This is primarily before they were made partitions as a |
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> norm and were on the root partition; filling them meant filling / and also |
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> meant you would lose access to your box. |
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> 5. For gentoo I recommend using a separate partition for /usr/portage. It's |
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> hard to nail down a size for this as portage tree keeps growing and the |
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> number of distfiles you might have is in flux. Isolating it ensures that any |
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> growth issues are isolated to that branch. |
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> 6. /var is your choice whether to parrtition separately or not, but is |
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> probably a good idea. /var/logs will grow over time, /var/spool is in |
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> constant flux, but the rest will typically remain kinda static (note this |
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> depends upon the apps you use; mysql houses it's databases under /var by |
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> default, and apache/tomcat use /var/www so that can chane also. |
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> Sizing each of the areas is really personal preference; if you ask 10 |
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> different gentooers you'll probably get 11 different responses at least. |
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> Dave |
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