On Sunday, 2 June 2024 16:11:38 BST Dale wrote: > My plan, given it is a 1TB, use maybe 300GBs of it. Leave the rest > blank. Have the /boot, EFI directory, root and maybe put /var on a > separate partition. I figure for the boot stuff, 3GBs would be plenty > for all combined. Make them large so they can grow. Make root, which > would include /usr, say 150GBs. /var can be around 10GBs. My current > OS is on a 160GB drive. I wish I could get the nerve up to use LVM on > everything except the boot stuff, /boot and the EFI stuff. If I make > them like above, I should be good for a long time. Could go much larger > tho. Could use maybe 700GBs of it. I assume it would use the unused > part if needed. I still don't know a lot about those things. Mostly > what I see posted on this list really.
Doesn't everyone mount /tmp and /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs these days? I use hard disk for a few large packages, but I'm not convinced it's needed - except when running an emerge -e, that is, when they can get in the way of lots of others. That's why, some months ago, I suggested introducing an ability to mark some packages for compilation solitarily. (Is that a word?) Here's the output of parted -l on my main NVMe disk in case it helps: Model: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 250GB (nvme) Disk /dev/nvme1n1: 250GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1049kB 135MB 134MB 2 135MB 4296MB 4161MB fat32 boot boot, esp 3 4296MB 12.9GB 8590MB linux-swap(v1) swap1 swap 4 12.9GB 34.4GB 21.5GB ext4 rescue 5 34.4GB 60.1GB 25.8GB ext4 root 6 60.1GB 112GB 51.5GB ext4 var 7 112GB 114GB 2147MB ext4 local 8 114GB 140GB 25.8GB ext4 home 9 140GB 183GB 42.9GB ext4 common The common partition is mounted under my home directory, to keep everything I'd want to preserve if I made myself a new user account. It's v. useful, too. > P. S. After I do the CPU upgrade, I'll have a spare CPU. Then I'll > need another mobo, and memory set so that I can put that CPU to use. No > need it sitting around on a shelf right??? ROFL Welcome to baggage reclaim... :) -- Regards, Peter.
