Colin wrote: > Just some questions about partitioning and filesystems... my boot > partition (/dev/hda1) will be ext3, and I've got a gig of swap > (/dev/hda2). Then what? Then make more partitions depending upon your need's. If this were to act as a server i would suggest making a seperate partition for /var since the log files can sometimes take up a lot of space and if they do bloat up and take all the space you have got your system wont crash since it's on a seperate partition (chances are less atleast)... and so on you could justify a seperate /usr partition to mount it as read-only once everything is installed for more security but you dont wanna go that way...
I would suggest you make a /boot (ext3), / (reiserfs), /home (again reiserfs) since i personally dont feel you should mix so many different file systems and reiserfs is a good / fast file system (did i say stable). For / if you give 10Gig's it should be more than enough for almost anything. And /home can never be enough depending upon your needs... Give as much space as you can to home since that's where all your mp3 and vidoe file's are going to stay. Anand Singh Bisen > > How much space should I dedicate to my system partition (/dev/hda3), > where I'm installing Gentoo and all my programs? This computer will use > GNOME and mainly be used for multimedia purposes: MP3 playback, DivX > movie playback, et cetera, but I'll more than likely move into more > advanced topics like DVD playback, Internet browsing and GPS if I ever > come across some money to burn. I'm planning to format this ReiserFS > and give it ten gigabytes of room to work with. I'd like speed, but > data integrity is also important. (But I'll have a backup! I'll likely > tarball this partition and save it on my home computer when installation > is complete, for a nice, virgin install of Gentoo so I can roll back if > I need to.) > > Next, what would be a good choice for a partition full of my personal > files? It'll mainly be MP3's (~5 MB each), DivX-compressed videos (~232 > MB each), and any other personal files I choose to take with me on the > road to replace my aged D-Link MP3 player. My primary objective is fast > reads. I'll probably mount this partition read-only and have a backup > on my main computer at home, so data integrity isn't much of a concern. > > -- > Colin > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
