On Friday 25 November 2011, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> 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,
IMO /usr/portage and /boot are too small, these are the respective sizes
in my system:
[root@aemaeth:~]$ du -sh /usr/portage
19G /usr/portage
[root@aemaeth:~]$ du -sh /boot
52M /boot
HTH
Francesco
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aemaeth
