Partitioning

lemon · n00b Joined: 17 Dec 2003 Posts: 16

Hi, I'm a relative noob at this so please forgive any mistakes.

Here's my dilema,

I've 3 hardrives in my box

10GB 5400 RPM
40GB 7200 RPM
80GB 7200 RPM

I'm wondering what the best partitioning scheme would be for a gentoo install.

There will be only one user so /home won't need a huge partition.

The 80GB drive is only used as storage for music etc. If I want this drive to be available to root and the one user is it safe to mount it as /storage rather than /mnt/storage or some other place?

What would be the best folder to put on the 10GM drive? /var?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

chammel · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 7:04 pm Post subject:

If these were my drives this is what I would do.

40GB drive 3 partitions

/boot hda1 100 MB
swap hda2 Size of Memory
/ hda3 Remaining space.

80GB drive 1 partition

/storage hdb1 Size of disk

10GB Drive 1 partition
/home hdc1 Size of disk

I know you said that there will only be one user but my home drive used space is at 2.7 GB. I did not make my home partition big enough.

The other reason to have a separate home partition is that you can wipe your root disk and reinstall linux without losing all your datafiles.

I keep all my date in /home/username. As a matter of fact I am getting ready to by a new disk and will make that disk my /home partition and transfer all the data to it. I have had this /home partition from when I had RedHat installed I just wiped the other partitions and I installed gentoo fixed some ownership issues on the files and directories and I had all my data and even some of my user configurations.

hielvc · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 7:51 pm Post subject:

I woouldnt use the 10Giger but for backing up /etc/ and /home. Then make a 100M /boot , 512M swap( if your doing heavy sound or video editing make 1 or 2G) , 7-10G / , 10G for /home. YOu leave then remaining ~20G for playing around with later. On my /home mount (hda5 in this case)

x-wing · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:29 pm Post subject:

you might also want to look at this post for additional partitioning info:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=115685
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Corw|n of Amber · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:37 pm Post subject:

That depends on what you'll do with the box... if you intent to rip DVDs, you might want to keep the 10 gigs as free space. (Sounds like a good idea to keep it just to hold backups and/or large files, as it is slow)

For the rest, I have a similar setup.

Here is my fstab :

lemon · n00b Joined: 17 Dec 2003 Posts: 16

tnx for all the info