Just some questions about partitioning and filesystems... my boot
partition (/dev/hda1) will be ext3, and I've got a gig of swap
(/dev/hda2). Then what?
How much space should I dedicate to my system partition (/dev/hda3),
where I'm installing Gentoo and all my programs? This computer will
Just some questions about partitioning and filesystems... my boot
partition (/dev/hda1) will be ext3, and I've got a gig of swap
(/dev/hda2). Then what?
How much space should I dedicate to my system partition (/dev/hda3),
where I'm installing Gentoo and all my programs? This computer will
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 02:52 -0400, Colin wrote:
How much space should I dedicate to my system partition (/dev/hda3),
where I'm installing Gentoo and all my programs?
Depends on usage. There's no hard and fast rule :)
On mine, system partition is 10gb, /usr/portage/ is on its own partition
Colin wrote:
Just some questions about partitioning and filesystems... my boot
partition (/dev/hda1) will be ext3, and I've got a gig of swap
(/dev/hda2). Then what?
Then make more partitions depending upon your need's. If this were to
act as a server i would suggest making a seperate
Colin wrote:
Just some questions about partitioning and filesystems... my boot
partition (/dev/hda1) will be ext3, and I've got a gig of swap
(/dev/hda2). Then what?
You are on the right track. 10G should be good enough for most system
partitions, just keep on eye on /usr/portage/distfiles
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 18:15:53 +0200, Richard Fish wrote:
You are on the right track. 10G should be good enough for most system
partitions, just keep on eye on /usr/portage/distfiles to make sure it
doesn't consume all of the space on your root volume.
Or use a different directory, the
Neil Bothwick wrote:
Once again, you can point PORTAGE_TMPDIR to wherever you want. I have a
large partition I use for things like building ISO images, intermediate
video file and suchlike and have PORTAGE_TMPDIR set to a directory on this
partition.
Yes, configuring portage for your needs
Hi,
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 08:46, Colin wrote:
Just some questions about partitioning and filesystems... my boot
partition (/dev/hda1) will be ext3, and I've got a gig of swap
(/dev/hda2). Then what?
ext3 for /boot is just overkill.
Since /boot is alsmost never mounted, the journal is
