p...@xvalheru.org wrote: > Hi, > > I've bought a new SSD and I want to install gentoo on it. I'd like to > heare some suggestions how to partition it. I'm planning small /boot > partition, / partition and /data (including home) partition. But I'm > not sure if I should create a swap partition or swap to file. I'm > daily hibernating the system to disk. And what should be the size od > the swap same as RAM or bigger? > > Thanks > > Pat > > ---------------------------------------- > Freehosting PIPNI - http://www.pipni.cz/ > > >
This is some info from my system. I use KDE and the size of /usr is a bit large since I have Kicad and some other software I can't recall the name of installed. Kicad has some huge libraries installed so it takes up a little over 5GBs of space on its own. That said, allowing extra space if you don't use something like LVM that can be expanded is a good idea. Software is growing. You may need to add some directories together depending on how or even if you have separate partitions for some things. Ignore /home here. Info: root@fireball / # du -shc /* 144G /backup 11M /bin 159M /boot 33M /etc 8.4T /home 1.8G /lib 19M /lib64 16K /lost+found 24K /mnt 741M /opt 0 /proc 193M /root 1.6M /run 16M /sbin 5.8M /tmp 20G /usr 21G /var 8.6T total root@fireball / # In the past, I had log files go weird and fill up /var. Since then, I've put /var on a separate partition. On mine, yours may be as well, the portage tree, distfiles and packages are also in /var. If you need additional info, just post back. Otherwise, hope this helps. Dale :-) :-)
