Alexey Asprov wrote:
Thanks for your reply. So, if that were your system, how much space you
would give to /boot /swap / ( eliminating /opt) /home /var /tmp and /usr?
I just need rough numbers, so that my fresh install wouldn't get in trouble.
I have 256 RAM and this is 10GIGs. Thanks again.
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:14:30 -0400
Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1. Boot should be at most ext3, but ext2 is just fine (the only thing on this
partition is kernel images and grub stages). Keeping to this will mean less
problems at boot time (grub users can tell you nightmares about
reiserfs /boot partitions, and I'd guess that jfs would be in the same
category). 50 meg is a nice round number although you can do with half that
(I personally use 100mb but I've got a number of kernels installed there).
2. /opt does not need to be a separate partition. Few gentoo things go there,
so it is not worth maintaining a separate partition for (and wasting the
possible space).
3. /home should be a separate partition, sized to your needs.
4. I'm from the old school where we believe /var/tmp and /tmp should be
separate partitions. This is primarily before they were made partitions as a
norm and were on the root partition; filling them meant filling / and also
meant you would lose access to your box.
5. For gentoo I recommend using a separate partition for /usr/portage. It's
hard to nail down a size for this as portage tree keeps growing and the
number of distfiles you might have is in flux. Isolating it ensures that any
growth issues are isolated to that branch.
6. /var is your choice whether to parrtition separately or not, but is
probably a good idea. /var/logs will grow over time, /var/spool is in
constant flux, but the rest will typically remain kinda static (note this
depends upon the apps you use; mysql houses it's databases under /var by
default, and apache/tomcat use /var/www so that can chane also.
Sizing each of the areas is really personal preference; if you ask 10
different gentooers you'll probably get 11 different responses at least.
Dave
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I know that there isn't much of a reason for a Reiser boot partition,
but I ended up doing that anyway, but no problems at all with grub.
Maybe problems were with older versions of the bootloader.
Rob.
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