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xcable
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I'll looking to optimize my partitioning on my Gentoo Laptop https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=95994&highlight=zd7000.
Currently I have this (in that order):
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/boot reiserfs 100MB
swap swap 1GB
/ reiserfs -what ever is left-
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As you can see it very "flat" and simple.
I use Vmware with two virtual machines (win2k, and winnt4) so that take a huge amount of space (~10 GB). I have heard that if you split up our partitons (ie. /var, /home, /usr/portage, etc..) you can decrease seek time on our hard drive and make if more fault tolerant. Is this true? If so, what are you recommendations?
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nixnut
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I have the swap partition at the beginning of the harddisk since that is the fastest part. Next I have a partition for /var/tmp/portage where portage stores the tempory files when it compiles packages.
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Hamman
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| I'd suggest having a separate partition for /home. It won't boost your performance, but it's really nice to be able to keep your files and settings should you decide to reinstall. |
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