On 2/16/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on their own partition. Additionally, the more partitions, the more useless > head movement, the slower data transfer the earlier the harddisk dies.
I disagree. Sensible partitioning can _reduce_ head movement and improve performance. For example, take the case of /usr/portage. *Many* people have reported improvements in portages speed by moving this to a separate, small partition. This is because when you are running portage, it doesn't have to seek all over the disk to collect files...it only has to look at a few cylinders that are close together. Having / on its own partition can result in a similar improvement, because the drive doesn't have to seek over your files in /home or /opt to get to something in /lib. I also disagree with Alexander about /usr, in that I prefer to merge that with / since it keeps all of the programs and files needed to boot the system and start X/KDE/etc close together. But that is what works best _for me_ on my laptop. So I have: /boot 100M / 6G /tmp 2G /var 5G /home 66G (the rest of the disk) /usr/portage 1G /usr/portage/packages 6G (also contains distfiles) /usr/src 2G I have not run out of space on anything or had to resize a partition for more than a year. Ok, I do run out of room on /usr/src occasionally because I forget to prune old kernel sources...but that is harmless. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
