On Wednesday 22 November 2006 19:40, Cooper Bug wrote: > Hello gentooers, > > I have a new 60 GB drive which I want to put gentoo on. > This will be a dual boot system. For now, I can only > think to give 10GB to windows, all other space for gentoo. > Please share your instights how many partinions do I have to > do, what sizes. I would value all the input. Thanks a lot. >
16MB /boot 5GB /var 5GB /usr/portage 15-20GB / REST /home swap as a swapfile where you want it to lie or 512MB-2GB swap partition. So you would have 6-7 partitions. no XFS, because it is highly unstable. No JFS, because it is slow. No ext4 because it is dev material. ext2 for /boot, reiserfs for /usr/portage, because it saves lots of space there and if it does become fragmented, you can mkfs /usr/portage without any risks - everything gone can be restored with an emerge --sync. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list