Hello to everyone, I just bought a 250 GB SSD and I'm planning to install Gentoo on it. I've read the Gentoo Wiki page on this and searched Google for hints on this, but since I found out that much information was either contradictory or outdated, I'm asking anyone with first-hand experience on this for advice.
My system is as follows: - 250GB SSD - 1TB HDD - 16GB RAM I'm planning to partition the SSD this way: - 100 GB -> / (on my current system, / is about 70GB) - 100 GB -> /home - 16 GB -> swap (mainly for hibernation) - 200 MB -> /boot /var/tmp/portage should go into a tmpfs (12GB). I've read that someone suggested putting also /tmp on a tmpfs. Right now, on my system /tmp is less than 100 MB, so I believe this should cause no problems, but is it necessary? Large files, such as Steam games and maybe distfiles should instead go on the 1TB HDD. I have some doubts about the swap partition. With 16 GB of RAM I shouldn't usually need swap except for hibernating (that's the reason I'm putting it on the SSD); however, I fear that compiling some large packages could fill all that space. Would it be bad to have the swap partition on the SSD used this way every now and then? Should I create another swap partition on the HDD and give it higher priority? What do you think? Do you have any advice on how to best set up such a system? Thanks in advance Stefano
