Re: [sheflug] HD partitioning question

[Peter Humphrey <prh [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 29 July 2006 23:08, Wonkey Donkey wrote:

> If anybody has any ideas or suggestions, I'd appreciate it.

Your scheme looks good to me. The only suggestion I'd offer is to keep a 
smallish partition for /usr/local, to keep your own stuff across 
reinstallations, and perhaps one for /tmp, to contain wayward programs. 
Both these are no more than minor refinements, and the /tmp one may be 
excessively paranoid. On the other hand, if you have the space...

Oh, and if you think there's really a danger of having to reinstall more 
than rarely, it may help to have a separate partition for /usr/portage - it 
cuts down on the Net traffic. That would need to be about 4G - at least, 
I've found 2G to be too small on this ~amd64 box.

For a while I had more than one setup on the one box (one for Gnome, one for 
KDE and one for XFCE - I do seem to make life complicated sometimes) and I 
explored making other directories common to all those systems in their own 
partitions, but I didn't find any that were worthwhile other than the ones 
I've mentioned.

-- 
Rgds
Peter

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