----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Munat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 11:56 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Partition size recommendations
> Interestingly enough, this is what it says on gentoo's "quick install" > page for experienced users > (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml): > > "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? > > > > > > -- > > > > peace, > > > > Rog When you find out please let me know. As an input I question the swap being twice the OB ram. I have 512M of Ram and in my very limited experience I havent caught the system using swap yet. Hoyt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
