Hello folks,
Now that my data has been backed up, I'm looking to covert one of my 80GB hard disks to Linux filesystems..
I'm planning on using LVM2. I'll be installing most of KDE 3.4. No Gnome. I'll have a webserver and a mailserver running, but I've already accounted the space required for them (as of right now) as 1GB in /var, which of course will need to be expanded in future... to how much, I don't know! But that's the point of using LVM2!
So, the basic requirements would be atleast an extra 3GB for /usr and 1GB for /var (that's excluding the space required by portage and other "default" things, for both /var and /usr)
I have 768MB of RAM and so far I haven't seen it use any swap. So I'm planning on a 256MB swap partition. Also, there will be a /boot which would be about 50MB.
Now for the important part. I am planning on using ccache and keepwork feature with portage. I'm wondering where I should set these two directories. How much space should I reserve for them and in which partition(s)?
Also, I'm not planning on installing anything in /opt. But I'll be installing both blackdown and Sun JRE and JDK. I'm not sure how much that'll take up. Oh, and anything else that installs itself in /opt by default that I don't know of?
After all this... I'm not sure how much /tmp I'll need!
And when all of the above LVM2 partitions (or should I say, volumes!) are done and dusted, how much would I need for / which would on a non-LVM partition. 200 MB?
Can anyone help me design a partitioning scheme based on what I've said above?
Thanks, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
