On Thursday 16 February 2006 13:19, Izar Ilun wrote: > I'm installing Gentoo and I'd like you to suggest me how much disc space I > should use for /. > > My machine is Pentium4, 1GB RAM, 200 GB HD ATA > > It's a desktop machine with Gentoo as the only and exclusive OS. > > Will run KDE. Amarok, OpenOffice, firefox.... > > Thanx!
40-60gb for / 2GB swap 15MB /boot rest /home you'll never fill up root, so making a lot of partitions is just wasted space. Plus, when /tmp or /var are full you are f* anyway, so no reason to put them on their own partition. Additionally, the more partitions, the more useless head movement, the slower data transfer the earlier the harddisk dies. And yes, I once put all and everything on its own partition. I learnt the hard way, that this does not solve problems, it creates them. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
