Question on Partitioning

crazyweber · n00b Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 58 Location: Lawrence, KS

After scouring the forums I have yet to find the information I am looking for. I have just built my second computer and am about to do a second Gentoo Install. Gentoo is running great on my laptop. My question is about the partitioning for Gentoo. Many threads have been talking about having a partition for /tar /usr /home etc....

1.) I was wondering what is the advantage for such partitioning?
2.) If I were to partition this way how would I do it?
3.) What size should each partition be? I am working with 60 GB.
4.) Can you do it from a stage 3 install or does it need to be from a stage 1
or stage 2?

Any help would be great.
- Eric

mudrii · l33t Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 789 Location: Singapore

It depend on yours need on what partition you will make.
In file server may need to have separate /usr in my case all data is on the same partition is home PC use 2 partition one on /boot and another for / root on other PC use only one partition / root.
Stage 1-2 is if you know how to use GCC flags and USE flags in stage 3 may have 3 GCC flags compiled every thing
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n3mo · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 6:14 am Post subject:

1- /home - if a user fills up the partition the pc won't stop working. /var il log grows up to fill partition the pc won't stop. More generally speacking if you got some partition corruption/error you will be able to recovery your system more easily.

2- It depens on what you want from your linux box, there are many post on partition schemas, try some searches

3- Same as above.

4- You could do waht you want, with linux you always got a choise.

Bye