Peter Humphrey wrote: > 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.
I'm starting the process here. I'm trying to follow the install guide but this is still not clear to me and the guide is not helping. In your list above, is #2 where /boot is mounted? Is that where I put kernels, init thingys, memtest and other images to boot from? My current layout for a 1TB m.2 stick, typing by hand: 1 8GB EFI System 2 400GB Linux file system for root or /. 3 180GB Linux file system for /var. I'll have /home and such on other drives, spinning rust. I'm just wanting to be sure if my #1 and your #2 is where boot files go, Grub, kernels, init thingys etc. I've always had kernels and such on ext2 but understand efi requires fat32. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
