120915 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> I just received a new laptop (dell 6430s) with a 256GB SSD
> and naturally want to install Gentoo. This is my first with an SSD.
> I reinstalled Windows shrinking the large partition very considerably
That much is what I did with my EEE netbook 2008 .
M$ has 2 uses : when you need to test things with your ISP,
who is familiar with the Windows configuration process ;
when you want to play bridge with the machine (no bridge for Linux !).
> My plan is to have root+usr on one "native partition" to appease
> the oracle at udev and the rest on lvm2 as in my current configuration.
Now we've moved to my current installation on my newly-built desktop box,
my 1st SSD too. It's working very well & I've dropped LVM.
My partitions on the SSD are (new box, old box assigned, old box used):
SSD sda 1 boot 0,6 0,1 0,06 /boot
2 root 30 20 3,55 / incl : opt usr var
3 swap 4 4 -- swap
5 home 30 20 6,84 /home
6 portage 15 20 3,43 /usr/portage (distfiles 2,3)
-- var -- 5 1,4 /var
7 z 41 24 1,5 /z
total 121 93,1 19,45
tmpfs -- -- -- /tmp
I've put /usr/local + /usr/src on my HDD, which your laptop lacks,
but you've got 128 GB more space on your SSD than I have
& you wb backing it up on some other machine, I assume,
so you have lots of space for more partitions for such things.
( /z is a big hangar for making ISOs, testing archives, Portage tempdir).
NB I've assigned vastly more space than I'm currently actually using.
> I know that it is important to have ssd partitions well aligned.
> It appears that fdisk is doing this automatically.
Yes, iff you partition the whole disk that way.
I don't know whether Dell + M$ located their partitions correctly
or whether Fdisk will start at the proper place when adding more.
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