Re: [sheflug] HD partitioning question

["Wonkey Donkey" <wonkey_donkey [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Humphrey" <prh [at] gotadsl.co.uk>
To: "sheflug" <sheflug [at] sheflug.co.uk>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: [sheflug] HD partitioning question


> 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
>

Ooh I like the /usr/portage idea ! That sounds a worthwhile consideration.

I know 'emerge --sync' and indeed anything portage related always run faster 
when the portage directories are located on separate disks.

I'm not intending to do any additional installations once this is up and 
running; and the /Documents partition has the capacity to include local 
backups of sda using 'dd'.

Thanks Peter :)

Steve. 



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