Mick wrote:
> <SNIP>
>
> With regards to your 47G /usr/portage partition I think that it is a waste of
> space. It won't harm you other than the fact that the 3.8G OS partition is
> in all likelihood too small. This is what I would do: tar the contents
> of /usr/portage elsewhere (even in the 3.8G partition - it should fit if you
> clear any cruft and, or use bzip). Delete the 47G partition and use gparted
> to enlarge the 3.8G partition to say, 8-10G. Then create a new partition say
> another 8-10G for /usr/portage. Then create anymore separate partitions you
> may need (for /home and what have you). mkfs as required, modify
> your /etc/fstab and move your data in your respective new partitions. If you
> think your fs is/are going to grow use LVM instead, otherwise primaries and
> if you need more than 4 then (extended + logical).
>
> Just my 2c's.
>
Well, I'm no expert but this has worked for me and this is a 4 or 5 year
old install. Your mileage may vary. From cfdisk:
hda1 Boot Primary Linux
ext2 200.25
hda5 Logical
Linux 1999.88
hda6 Logical Linux
ReiserFS 19999.76
hda7 Logical Linux
ReiserFS 4999.94
hda8 Logical Linux
ReiserFS 4999.94
hda9 Logical Linux
ReiserFS 49764.56
This is from df:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use%
Mounted on
/dev/hda6 19530340 4842172 14688168 25%
/
/dev/hda1 189339 19382 160181
11% /boot
/dev/hda7 4882532 2832424 2050108 59%
/usr/portage
/dev/hda8 4882532 1597144 3285388 33%
/home
/dev/hdb1 78145768 13720248 64425520 18%
/data
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / #
As you can see, I have plenty of space available for future additions,
like a space hogging KDE 4.0. :-) The fullest one is /usr/portage
which I clean up on occasion with eclean. If I ever change them around
again, I will put /var on a separate partition but other than that, it
works pretty well. May make root smaller then as well.
A lot of this depends on what you are doing with the box tho. It's just
something you have to sort of work out as you go which may be why some
recommend EVMS or LVM. I have read up on it but just never got up the
nerve to try it yet. This is a desktop mostly used to surf the net and
run foldingathome on.
Hope this helps tho.
Dale
:-) :-) :-)
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