On Nov 26, 2011 12:06 AM, "Stéphane Guedon" <steph...@22decembre.eu> wrote: > > On Friday 25 November 2011 14:53:17 Pandu Poluan wrote: > > I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is > > highly-partitioned, like this: > > > > / > > /boot > > /usr > > /tmp > > /usr/portage ==> via NFS > > /var > > /var/lib/postgresql > > /var/tmp > > /var/log > > /var/spool > >
----- >8 snip > > I never set /usr separated from / especially on a server : if there's a bug > for any reason, nothing works ! (emerge is in /usr, gcc, ssh doesn't start). > > But you are the one who decide ! > Well, actually that's the reason why I want to separate /usr: I'm going to mount it ro to prevent something bad happening to the extremely important files within. > This is my partition system : > / ext3/4 > /home ext3/4 > /var reiserfs > /tmp tmpfs > /tmp_portage tmpfs (specifically for emerge, so I can mount or unmount it when > large compil start) > /mnt/portage reiserfs (shared via nfs) > /mnt/distfiles ext3/4 (shared via nfs) > Why do you separate the distfiles from the portage tree? Rgds,
