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C1REX l33t
Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 774 Location: Poland/UK
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Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2020 2:18 pm Post subject: Partition recommendation for multi-boot and benchmarks. |
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Apologies for a noob question but I'm back after 14years break :)
I want to prepare my system to have Gentoo, Windows, Clear Linux and two other distros.
One of the goals is to play with optimisation for best benchmark scores and to beat Clear Linux.
I've got 1TB nvme and 32GB Ram.
My idea was to have small boot partition for GRUB, SWAP (how much?), 100GB for each system and all the rest for /home.
Does it make sense?
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krinn Watchman
Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470
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Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2020 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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ClearLinux goal is "By default, Clear Linux OS prioritizes maximum CPU performance with the philosophy that the faster the program finishes execution, the faster the CPU can return to a low energy idle state"
No need to test anything, anyone compiling with gcc is awful for any energy saving goal ; and gcc is heart of gentoo
ClearLinux use systemd
I wonder how much pain it would be running it without systemd, while on gentoo, it's a cake ; which made me think i cannot live without gentoo
And your own personal goal: beat ClearLinux speed, you might do that in gentoo, but at end, you would not proof any gentoo superiority over clearlinux, you would had just prove "you" have succeed in optimizing something better than clearlinux ; and i suppose (never tried it) it's something "you" might be able to do in clearlinux too.
So no, it doesn't really make sense to me |
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duane Apprentice
Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 193 Location: Oklahoma City
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Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2020 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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krinn wrote: | No need to test anything, anyone compiling with gcc is awful for any energy saving goal ; and gcc is heart of gentoo |
Is compiling really one of your major energy drains? Most houses' wall-warts probably waste more energy in a day than I use compiling gentoo from stage3. Of course, since it's winter where I live, any heat I produce just saves on the heating bill, so it's close to no difference at the moment. : )
C1REX wrote: | My idea was to have small boot partition for GRUB, SWAP (how much?), 100GB for each system and all the rest for /home. |
So far, my biggest install is under 30GB, not including home. In the last month, I've installed two different versions of ubuntu on 30GB partitions with plenty of space to spare. The copy of gentoo I made for gentooLTO was under 20GB, and gentoo usually takes up the most space, with all the source.
Edit: You can easily share some of the directories between gentoo copies to save space, if you have more than one. distfiles and binpkgs come to mind.
I don't think I'd bother with swap, if I had 32GB of RAM. |
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54397 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2020 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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C1REX,
Have a common /boot and or EFI partition or you will go mad.
Unless you want to hibernate, have a common swap too. With a common swap and hibernate in use, you cannot start a different OS without destroying the hibernate image.
A common home can work if you have different normal usernames on each install.
The problem to avoid here is different distros installing different version of the same packages having incompatible per user settings in /home/<username>/
/tmp is shared and goes into a tmpfs. _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
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those that do backups
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389292 Guru
Joined: 26 Mar 2019 Posts: 504
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Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2020 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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which benchmarks are you talking about? |
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C1REX l33t
Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 774 Location: Poland/UK
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C1REX l33t
Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 774 Location: Poland/UK
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2020 6:55 am Post subject: |
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NeadySeagon
Thank you for the tip.
So my plan is to do something like this:
/dev/sda1 BIOS boot partition. (2M?)
/dev/sda2 Boot partition. (128M of ext2?)
/dev/sda3 Swap partition (is it still twice of my RAM? it would be 64GB then)
/dev/sda4 Gentoo (200G)
/dev/sda5 Windows (300G)
/dev/sda6 Clear Linux (100G)
/dev/sda7 Ubuntu (100G)
/dev/sda8 Other Linux distro (50G)
/dev/sda9 Other Linux distro 2 (50G)
It's not exactly 1TB here. I will create all that using one of those easy distros with graphical partitioners and just decide moving sliders how much to allocate to Gentoo and Windows. _________________ CLICK HERE to help move gentoo up on distrowatch.
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C1REX l33t
Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 774 Location: Poland/UK
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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2020 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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Follow up.
I don't know what to do with Windows.
It tries to create 4 partitions (boot, recover, system and default - the biggest).
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