Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> I already did the rsync/format thing a few times over the last years, >>> and the results are always the same: very fast filesystem for about a >>> month, then it starts getting slower over time. >> >> I have to say that after my recent transfer, my login got a whole one >> second faster. I can't tell any difference anywhere else. Of course, >> portage has always been on its own partition and used ext3. >> >> We need a hard drive engineer on here. :/ > > Well, I have everything in /. Except for /boot. Maybe I should > reconsider my setup :P > > >
How you partition depends on what you are doing. I just have a desktop myself. I keep /home and /data separate in case I need to switch over for some reason and portage just to keep it from getting to fragmented. I guess it helps some at least. Dale :-) :-)
