Thanks for your reply. So, if that were your system, how much space you would give to /boot /swap / ( eliminating /opt) /home /var /tmp and /usr? I just need rough numbers, so that my fresh install wouldn't get in trouble. I have 256 RAM and this is 10GIGs. Thanks again.
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:14:30 -0400 Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Boot should be at most ext3, but ext2 is just fine (the only thing on this > partition is kernel images and grub stages). Keeping to this will mean less > problems at boot time (grub users can tell you nightmares about > reiserfs /boot partitions, and I'd guess that jfs would be in the same > category). 50 meg is a nice round number although you can do with half that > (I personally use 100mb but I've got a number of kernels installed there). > > 2. /opt does not need to be a separate partition. Few gentoo things go > there, > so it is not worth maintaining a separate partition for (and wasting the > possible space). > > 3. /home should be a separate partition, sized to your needs. > > 4. I'm from the old school where we believe /var/tmp and /tmp should be > separate partitions. This is primarily before they were made partitions as a > norm and were on the root partition; filling them meant filling / and also > meant you would lose access to your box. > > 5. For gentoo I recommend using a separate partition for /usr/portage. It's > hard to nail down a size for this as portage tree keeps growing and the > number of distfiles you might have is in flux. Isolating it ensures that any > growth issues are isolated to that branch. > > 6. /var is your choice whether to parrtition separately or not, but is > probably a good idea. /var/logs will grow over time, /var/spool is in > constant flux, but the rest will typically remain kinda static (note this > depends upon the apps you use; mysql houses it's databases under /var by > default, and apache/tomcat use /var/www so that can chane also. > > Sizing each of the areas is really personal preference; if you ask 10 > different gentooers you'll probably get 11 different responses at least. > > Dave > -- > [email protected] mailing list > -- [email protected] mailing list
