On Saturday 28 Sep 2013 16:06:39 Dale wrote: > Michael Hampicke wrote: > > Am 28.09.2013 13:32, schrieb Tanstaafl: > >> On 2013-09-27 7:10 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> No really,*why exactly*? > >> > >> Because that was the RECOMMENDED WAY IN THE GENTOO HANDBOOK when I first > >> set this system up many years ago. > > > > Where did you read that? According to the 2004 handbook the default > > partition scheme was: > > > > Partition Filesystem Size Description > > /dev/hda1 ext2 32M Boot partition > > /dev/hda2 (swap) 512M Swap partition > > /dev/hda3 ext3 Rest of the disk Root partition > > http://web.archive.org/web/20040419042803/http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/hand > book/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 > > > > > I guess I got mine from the handbook back in early 2003. That is when I > did my first install. > > Also, as I stated, I have / and /boot on regular partitions and > everything else on LVM. Care to guess why I don't have / on a LVM too? > Yep, to avoid the init thingy. I don't have /boot on LVM because grub > didn't support it. > > Dale
I recall that in 2003 the separate /usr was shown as an option of multi- partition install, rather than the 'recommended' way to install gentoo. Many followed it and some stayed with it. In those heady days of slow ATA drives, moving a partition closer to the start of the disk also made a difference in access/read/write speeds. Even with SATA 1.0 I used to get some noticeable difference, although I never ran any benchmarks at the time. -- Regards, Mick
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