Wang Penghui wrote: > Hello: > > I want to install gentoo on a pc box as daily use and test bed. And the > follow is its hardwares: > > CPU: Intel C4 1.7G > Mem: 1G > HardDisk: 40G > > I wandor know how big the swap partition should be?
I've always been told to use (2-2,5)*RAM. But in your case I guess 1G is widely sufficient. > > And how to design the other partitions? Partition design should be done keeping in mind the purpose of this operation : separating data types to ease maintenance. The separation is done regarding how often files are written on the partitions (the more write operations occur, highest is the risk to corrupt data). /boot (100M): written once a year with kernel 2.4, once a week with 2.6 / (10G): binaries etc, rarely written /tmp (1G): always written /var (2G): between /tmp and / swap (1G) /home (25G): to keep your own data independent from the system Notice that if you want to compile Sun's jdk you will need at least 3G in /var. > > > Thanks for your help. > > Wang -- [email protected] mailing list
