"The recommended setup is a 64 meg boot volume with ext2, a swap partition twice the size of your available RAM, and the rest for your root partition using ReiserFS."
I agonized over just how big to make my partitions (even though I went to all the trouble to use lvm so that I could resize them) while I was using the long instructions... and then the quick instructions say to not even bother. And the gentoo rack server I recently rented follows the above suggestion to the letter.
So, it appears that there are some varying opinions on partitioning... anyone care to weigh in?
b
Roger Sherman wrote:
I'm about to become a new Gentoo user, after several years of using Mandrake. I was very happy with Mandrake up to v8.x, but since 9.0, there have been a couple things that have bothered me about it enough to make the switch. Now, for some time I've used the same partition table, which is:
/ 797 MB ReiserFS /swap 250 MB /usr 4.8 G ReiserFS /usr/local 1.9 G ReiserFS /var 996 MB ReiserFS /home 10G ReiserFS /mnt/media 31 G ReiserFS /mnt/arc 6.4 G ReiserFS
In reading over the Gentoo Handbook Installation Instructions, I saw something about how /var should be bigger in a Gentoo system, but I can't find that part today...any recommendations?
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