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 Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:48 pm Post subject: Size of root and /usr or x64 Gnome Gentoo desktop? |
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Hi I am doing a new installation of Gentoo, as we have not so great connection speed and insane data cap in New Zealand, I tend to keep download Dist files in my portage tree, and
it grown to a few Gigs over time and always make my root bigger than normal and I have to resize my root a couples of times in the past.
Anyway, as I just wiped out my root for new install (switch from x86 to 64), just want to know what size of root other Gentoo users have in their Desktop PC so I can use as reference for my new installation.
I am using Genome, but tends to keep a few KDE applications over time like K3b, Amarok etc. |
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avx
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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Mh, just use a dedicated partition for portage/distfiles(can also be shared between different Gentoo systems, if you've got more machines running it)?
As for your question, my(!) complete system (excluding ~/) fits 2.4Gb, but it doesn't have any DE on it - most is used by TeX-stuff and kernel-sources.
As for a complete KDE/GNOME + OO.o/LO.o and other stuff, I'd say 6-8Gb should do it, add another 2Gb if you have more than 1 kernel-source laying around.
Or use LVM and resize quite easily and safely on the fly.
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| avx wrote: | Mh, just use a dedicated partition for portage/distfiles(can also be shared between different Gentoo systems, if you've got more machines running it)?
As for your question, my(!) complete system (excluding ~/) fits 2.4Gb, but it doesn't have any DE on it - most is used by TeX-stuff and kernel-sources.
As for a complete KDE/GNOME + OO.o/LO.o and other stuff, I'd say 6-8Gb should do it, add another 2Gb if you have more than 1 kernel-source laying around.
Or use LVM and resize quite easily and safely on the fly. |
Actually I am thinking about root for a partition and /usr or /portage another partition and I will probably make use of LVM for /usr or /Portage if it is not so much trouble compare to LVM on root itself.
Oh, I think my last root partition took about 22GB(!) and it is relative new installation for about 1 year, not sure how much /usr took, and yes I had more than one kernel source, I think three different versions or more, bad habits? I think I used more than one Kernel to compare performance about 4 years ago to compare their performance when I got a AMD Althon. |
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keet
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| Unless you install multiple desktop environments and some big games in /opt, I doubt that it would go over 10GB, ever. A safe maximum value, in my opinion, is 25GB. |
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