On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 03:20:03 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > I plan to partition + format the SSD in my new machine very soon. > The Arch wiki has an article on the subject, which says > that recent versions of Fdisk will safely align SSD partitions. > > Is this correct ?
Yes, but all of this was covered in some detail a few days ago. > My partition scheme is > > 1 boot 0,6 0,06 /boot > 2 root 30 3,55 / including opt usr var > 3 swap 4 -- swap > 5 home 30 3,3 /home > 6 portage 15 3,43 /usr/portage (distfiles 2,3) > 7 z 41 1,5 /z > total 121 19,45 If it's a new machine, use a GPT rather than DOS partition table. I prefer to use a small ext2 filesystem for PORTDIR for speed and set DISTDIR somewhere else (a directory in /z would make sense on your system as the contents of DISTDIR are fairly temporary) > I use /z/tmp/ for Portage's temporary disk space. > Other items, eg /usr/local/ /usr/src/ wb on the HDD. > > I plan to put /tmp/ on a ram disk. If you have enough RAM, use tmpfs for /tmp and set PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/tmp. -- Neil Bothwick And then Adam said, "What's a headache?
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