Am Dienstag, 4. September 2012, 08:47:12 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 03:20:03 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > I plan to partition + format the SSD in my new machine very soon. > > The Arch wiki has an article on the subject, which says > > that recent versions of Fdisk will safely align SSD partitions. > > > > Is this correct ? > > Yes, but all of this was covered in some detail a few days ago. > > > My partition scheme is > > > > 1 boot 0,6 0,06 /boot > > 2 root 30 3,55 / including opt usr var > > 3 swap 4 -- swap > > 5 home 30 3,3 /home > > 6 portage 15 3,43 /usr/portage (distfiles 2,3) > > 7 z 41 1,5 /z > > > > total 121 19,45 > > If it's a new machine, use a GPT rather than DOS partition table. > > I prefer to use a small ext2 filesystem for PORTDIR for speed and set > DISTDIR somewhere else (a directory in /z would make sense on your system > as the contents of DISTDIR are fairly temporary) > > > I use /z/tmp/ for Portage's temporary disk space. > > Other items, eg /usr/local/ /usr/src/ wb on the HDD. > > > > I plan to put /tmp/ on a ram disk. > > If you have enough RAM, use tmpfs for /tmp and set PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/tmp.
hell no! don't do that! tmpfs for /tmp is fine and tmpfs for PORTAGE_TMPDIR is fine too. Like /var/tmp/portage. But don't put PORTAGE_TMPDIR into /tmp. Not good. Bad idea. Really. IF PORTAGE_TMPDIR fills up - no biggy, emerge dies, that's it. But /tmp filled up? Suddenly you will have lots of strange problems... don't do it. Spare yourself some headaches. -- #163933
