On Sat, Sep 15 2012, Philip Webb wrote: > 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 !).
I don't play bridge but do find windows also useful when dealing with dell if there are any hardware issues. >> 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. > > It's working very well & I've dropped LVM. I toyed with that thought after the udev business, but eventually decided to stay with 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 am embarrassed to say I had trouble reading the above, embarrassed because it show provincial habits. I didn't even consider that , could be a decimal point. Now it is clear > 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. Correct. > ( /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 have the equivalent on my current system and will probably carry it over as well. >> 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. No for dell, yes for microsoft, yes for fdisk (at least emacs calc says so). thanks, allan
