On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 17:55, 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?
You can consider using Logical Volume management. It's an extra layer between partitions and filesystems, which give you the opportunity to divide your space flexible. See also the LVM howto at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html The biggist advantage is the ability to resize logical volumes without losing data in many cases, so you're not stuck to one partition table once chosen. Elton
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