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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:29:25
Message-Id: 200602161519.24278.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? by Alexander Skwar
1 On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:06, Alexander Skwar wrote:
2 > Izar Ilun wrote:
3 > > I say that, It'll be just:
4 > > - /boot
5 > > - swap
6 > > - /home
7 > > - / (all the rest)
8 >
9 > That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create
10 > filesystems for /boot, swap, /home, /opt, /usr, /var
11 > and / (of course). This way you're more flexible
12 > and also a bit safer (not such a high risk of running
13 > out of space on /).
14
15 and he wastes a lot of space, makes boot a lot longer and increases head
16 movement.
17
18 One big / (like 40 or 80GB) will be enough (plus 15mb /boot, 2GB swap, the
19 rest /home).
20
21 With that sizes, it is nearly impossible to fill / completly up. But a too
22 small /tmp or /var can make a boot impossible.
23
24 To put everything on its own partition was good, when harddisks were 2gb-10gb
25 big. But today it is just a waste of space and time.
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Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>
Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? jarry@×××.net