Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest SSD partitioning

2021-12-09 Thread Nils Freydank
Hi, my thoughts: If you use an EFI/UEFI you will need a so called ESP, i.e. a FAT32 partition. FAT32 is ugly from a linux user's perspective (e.g. it doesn't support symlinks as far as I know and being regularly told by other users), but I'm putting /boot on that partition for at least seven

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest SSD partitioning

2021-12-09 Thread Dale
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest SSD partitioning

2021-12-09 Thread Wol
On 09/12/2021 19:27, 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

[gentoo-user] [OT] suggest SSD partitioning

2021-12-09 Thread pat
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