On Saturday, 23 September 2017 21:27:45 CEST Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > 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 I found out that much information was either contradictory or outdated, 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
Thanks for the information Stefano
