RE: [gentoo-user] Partition setup?

[Essien Ita Essien]

All... the posts are really helpfull you know, the last one especially. I also feel that you'll need to create a partition for /home/ftp (is that the ftp home directory) I think the rule of thumbs generally is to keep your /usr and /var and /home as seperate partitions... and any other filesystems that will be populated with user data after the system is running. This greatly aids performance as the filesystem gets more populated and it helps when you need to reinstall the OS. you wont need to loose your hard earned data. Usually, / and /boot are usually kept small and as /boot only contains boot up information that you generally dont mess around with on a production system once it is up and running. Gentoo actually doesn't mount the /boot partition under normal boot up. / is generally left to contain /etc /root /sbin /bin and and these days i think /opt, as many distros dont really use it as the FHS advises it should be used (i'm not too sure of these though as i've only used RedHat, Gentoo, and TurboLinux (i once tried to create a seperate partition for /etc and got an error that /etc is needed at startup, so i've not tried doing that again). For more information you can download and go thru the UNIX FHS(Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) Specification from (www.pathname.com/fhs). They say its for developers, but a little inside information shouldn't hurt you know.   You should find it a bit informative. And once you get the idea, you'll know the best way to go. cheers Essien