Am Freitag 26 Februar 2010 schrieb Paul Hartman: > Hi, I'm building a new personal computer. I respect the opinion and > experience of the people on this list and am interested in anyone's > advice on the best way to set up my new Gentoo installation. Things > that you say "I wish I set mine up this way the first time..." or have > learned from experience how to do it right the first time already. :) > > Some topics I'm thinking about (comments welcome): > - be aware of cylinder boundaries when partitioning (thanks to the > recent thread)
Indeed. ;-) I just applied that knowledge again yesterday on a friend’s new laptop. > - better partitioning scheme than my current root, boot, home (need > portage on its own, maybe /var as well?) I use the root/boot/home scheme as well (500GB laptop drive). Though I used ReiserFS in an image file on / file system for a while, but dropped it later. Using an image file saves from fiddling with partitions and FS resizing in the process. > - some kind of small linux emergency/recovery partition? equivalent to > a liveCD maybe. I always wanted to make my own Gentoo-based livecd that fits onto my old 128M stick. :o) > - SSD vs 10000rpm vs big-and-cheap hard drive for rootfs/system files. > I lean toward the latter since RAM caches it anyway. I’m still caucios about SSDs because of their limited lifetime. I would only use it for /home or my media archive. But for the latter, it would become over-expensive fast, for they are more pricey by the GB than all other things. If it shall be a quiet system, I’d look into 2,5" drives, they also use less power than 3,5", on the other hand they are of course more expensive. :) > - omit/reduce number of reserved-for-root blocks on partitions where > it's not necessary. I’ve set it to 0 on my home partition. I also reduced the inode count on my media, home and X-Plane partition. None of those have more than 60000 in use at the moment, whereas mkfs had given them about 3 to 4 million by default. I’m not sure though if that gives me any more available space. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' This sentence no verb.
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