Mounting and partition advice needed.

iamnoone · n00b Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 6

I've read the partitioning/mounting/filesystem portion of the install guide. In it, it says that if you have /var and /usr as seperate partitions, they should be mounted to /mnt/gentoo/var and /mnt/gentoo/usr respectively. I'm going to install gentoo on an HD that i had previously installed a different distro on. the partitioning scheme i used was as follows:
/ ~512meg
/swap ~512meg
/home ~15gig
/var ~4gig
/usr ~8gig
/tmp ~1gig

I'm guessing i can use / as /boot. Im not sure.
As far as /home is concerned, i really don't know what to do with it.
Once i boot the live cd, /mnt/gentoo is already mounted and various directories already reside there. it almost seems as if /mnt/gentoo is /home. but if i remount /home to /mnt/gentoo, i'll mess up the scheme that is preconfigured. not sure how that will impact the install later on.

So here are my questions:
1. What should i do with /?
2. Split it into 2 partitions and have a / and a /boot?
3. Should i mount /home to /mnt/gentoo/home?

Thanks for dealing with my noobness.

gfunkmonk · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 5:32 am Post subject:

I would suggest making partitions like this:

Small Part for /boot = ~50mb
/home = ~5gb
/ = rest

Or you could really just make one part for /boot and one for /, or you could just make one big partition, but a boot part is a good idea, and its also a good idea to make home a seperate part, incase something goes wrong.

and yes, if you wanted to do it the way you mentioned you would have to mount /usr and /var that way.
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digital diesel · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 5:35 am Post subject:

1. mount / (/dev/hda?) as /mnt/gentoo/ . All the stuff in there is from the stage you downloaded. it's the embroyic gentoo system you're building.

2. You might want to put /boot on it's on partition. First you don't want to mount this at boot time. /boot is good to have on it's on partition incase something happens to / or vice versa. That way you can recover easier.

3. If you want home on it's on partition then it's going to be like:
root@gentoo# mount /dev/hda* (whatever /home is) /mnt/gentoo/home

And yes, slackware is gentoo's bitch