On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 04:57:15PM +0000, Feuerbacher, Alan wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > > What do you and other LFS developers tend to use? > > > > LFS :) > > LOL! Now that you've bootstrapped yourselves, you stick with it. :-) > > Thanks for your help. > > Alan For my development systems (two desktops, ech with a 500GB disk) I use 8 GB each for '/' partitions (six of them) - some people might find that space a bit small, but all my sources are on an nfs mount from my server, and a *full* LFS-7.2 desktop build is only using 58% of a system fs after two rounds of firefox updates. Also swap (varying amounts - I keep hoping to play with s2ram and s2disk, although there isn't much need on a desktop), /boot [ I've wasted 1GB for that on the current disk, but I put it on the inside of the disk (sda15) - slow, but only accessed when I boot and when I save a new kernel].
On the current box (used for photo editing when I have the time) /home is 60GB and theoretically backed up (i.e. it gets backed up 4 times a day if the box is up, but I'm not convinced that my backups can accomodate 60GB for it :) The rest of the space is at /scratch and used for development builds / testing package builds, git pulls from a few projects, and AV processing (more so on the other box). There are lots of different ways to partition. With distros, the things you need to watch out for are: Living on the bleeding edge (you might like it, but from time to time it will break) vs using antiquated versions. All distros think they own /boot : this will make updating kernels fun if more than one distro (or LFS+distro) is involved. Distros use different user numbers (debian-derived distros probably use similar numbers, redhat/fedora-derived distros use a different set of similar numbers), and have their own ideas about which group(s) users belong in - this occasionally creates some amusement when you share /home. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
