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woo
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 Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 9:57 am Post subject: breaking hdd into partitions (c) ... |
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hi, guys 
I've been sitting & thinking about how to break my 40Gb hdd into partitions for gentoo. While having my oldy 10Gb the process didn't seem to be that hard,  but now (doh!) ...  So that's what I've decided to make yet:
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/dev/hda1 30MB /boot
/dev/hda2 20GB /home
/dev/hda5 1GB /
/dev/hda6 400MB swap
/dev/hda7 10GB /usr
/dev/hda8 1GB /opt
/dev/hda9 2GB /var
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(+5GB for some new partitions, perhaps) |
As you can see this is quite similar to what gentoo handbook suggests, but is it reasonable? I have lots of scruples concerning /opt & /var & swap.
/var: as to /var things are more or less clear (gentoo compiles stuff inside /var/tmp/portage)
/opt: I'm not even sure that I gonna use anything besides fluxbox\blackbox as wm  So do I need such a big /opt? Tho, hell knows...
swap: as to RAM my notebook (yep, it's a notebook) has 256MB, so again I guess 400MB of swap should be pretty fine, right? Mates, all advice & comments are really-really welcome! |
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Earthwings
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Location: Germany
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swap is ok, but I'd suggest making /opt and /var a little bit bigger. if you're going to install openoffice anytime, it will take about 200MB and one day it might be to small. Same for /var, emerging gnucash takes about 2 GB space in /var, if i remember correctly.
Using LVM might be an option, too. |
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hermes_jr
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Location: Moscow, Russia
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It's only my opinion, but I think that if you've got just one harddrive, there is no need to create 7  partitions, maybe 3 or 4...
I prefer this scheme: boot, swap and root; or maybe boot, swap, root and /home... |
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