begin quote On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:55:36 -0500 Roger Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My personal recommendations fall in the lines of Gentoo-isms: /usr/portage : on its own partition, ext2 and 1 or 2 Gb . (my distfiles only is 3.3 Gb, and I seldom clean it cause I like to be able to use the old stuffs) this prevents fragmentation on the main system, and is generally a good thing due to the updates on portage tree. See recent discussion in gentoo-dev about moving it to /var, but still. It should have its own partition in my mind. as there is no vital data there, its just ok to keep it on a non-journalled fs. Speed is more important here. /var/tmp/portage : i keep this for a 4 Gb ext2 partition. I almost never use that, but its oversized only so I can build huge things like openoffice without trouble. if you want a server, around 1-2 Gb there would be ok. Also this needs to be executable, and ext2 is a good choice too. there is no vital data here ever, so corruption isn't an issue (just restart the compile, or wipe it. its temp data ) Another hint: if you feel frisky and want to experiment, keeping another 5 Gb around unpartitioned or partitioned is a nice idea. This can then be used for a second installation when you've come to the part of messing your system up to the point where it hardly boots and nothing ever works ;) (Yep... I've done this too, on the other hand, I'm supposed to ;) //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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