Gentoo for Freevo

DragonZeal · n00b Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 58

I'm planning to install Gentoo on a 500Mhz with 128Mb of RAM.
I have a 15Gb hard disk.
I was wondering something about the partitions.
The handbook says:
/dev/hda1 /boot +32M ext2
/dev/hda2 swap +256M linux swap
/dev/hda3 / * ext3

Is this good voor standalone freevobox just to watch divx or do you suggest something else?

marcion · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 2:28 pm Post subject:

Sounds good to me. Although I would go for

/dev/hda1 /boot 32M ext2 (or less 20MB is usually enough unless you want to hoard kernels)
/dev/hda2 swap, 256M linux swap
/dev/hda3 / (root) 2-3 GB
/dev/hda4 /home - the rest

The reason I say that have /home is so you can basically keep your documents safe from misadventure. I.e. so you can switch distros, mess up your distro etc.

DragonZeal · n00b Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 58

What filesystems would you choose for hda3 and hda4?
This standalone box will get its movies from a fileserver so I don't need a seperate /home.
But I just want to know the filesystem voor my root.

marcion · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:17 pm Post subject:

I personally would go for ext3. Other people say ReiserFS but I am not a fan. Either will work fine. ReiserFS might have an edge for extremely large disks i.e. 1000 gigs or something.