On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 21:35, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: >> I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is >> highly-partitioned, like this: >>
----- >8 snip > > I don't use LVM but I suspect that on this list that would be the #1 > recommendation to take care of the numbers question. > Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty complex. So, I want to start from something simple. Aaaanyways, after reviewing my production boxes, I decided to implement the following strategy: / == 800 MiB /boot == 20 MiB /usr == 1800 MiB /usr/portage == 2000 MiB /var == 4000 MiB /var/lib/postgresql == 1000 MiB Comments, suggestions, are welcome :) Rgds, -- FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ • LOPSA Member #15248 • Blog : http://pepoluan.tumblr.com • Linked-In : http://id.linkedin.com/in/pepoluan
