On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Stefano Crocco <po...@stefanocrocco.it> wrote: > > 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 I found out that much information was either contradictory or outdated, I'm 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?
I use a similar setup. Several top-level directories in my $HOME are bind mounts to a large mechanical drive. My swap (16GB) is on that drive also. I've found that 100MB is enough for the EFI /boot partition (but I clean old kernels immediately after updating). For the /tmp I use tmpfs (I use the size=100% option), and then in /etc/portage/make.conf I have: PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" This way I fully use /tmp when compiling large packages, and don't wear down my SSD. Regards. -- Dr. Canek Peláez Valdés Profesor de Carrera Asociado C Departamento de Matemáticas Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
