Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Partitioning strategy...?

2011-11-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:31:28 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I was once somewhat familiar with UUID-based fstab when I was still using Ubuntu. Too bad I've deleted my last Ubuntu VM a couple of weeks ago. Let's see if I can still find my installation notes... That's the easy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Partitioning strategy...?

2011-11-26 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:31:28 +0700 Pandu Poluanpa...@poluan.info wrote: I was once somewhat familiar with UUID-based fstab when I was still using Ubuntu. Too bad I've deleted my last Ubuntu VM a couple of weeks ago. Let's see if I can still find my installation notes...

[gentoo-user] Re: Partitioning strategy...?

2011-11-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 20:53, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info 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 (Not all of them will reside on

[gentoo-user] Re: Partitioning strategy...?

2011-11-25 Thread James
Pandu Poluan pandu at poluan.info writes: Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty complex. I feel your pain I too have had trouble

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Partitioning strategy...?

2011-11-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 26, 2011 1:05 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Pandu Poluan pandu at poluan.info writes: Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and

[gentoo-user] Re: Partitioning strategy...?

2011-11-25 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 25 November 2011, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 21:35, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is highly-partitioned, like this: - 8

[gentoo-user] Re: Partitioning strategy...?

2011-11-25 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 25 November 2011, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 20:53, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Partitioning strategy...?

2011-11-25 Thread Dale
Francesco Talamona wrote: IMO /usr/portage and /boot are too small, these are the respective sizes in my system: [root@aemaeth:~]$ du -sh /usr/portage 19G /usr/portage [root@aemaeth:~]$ du -sh /boot 52M /boot HTH Francesco This is my size and it works fine with the occasional use of eclean:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Partitioning strategy...?

2011-11-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:55:02 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: I also wonder if /var/tmp can be shared between boxen (via NFS), assuming I ensure that no two boxen perform emerge at the same time... That will really slow down emerges. -- Neil Bothwick Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are