Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:40:38 +0300, Cooper Bug wrote: > > >> Please share your instights how many partinions do I have to >> do, what sizes. I would value all the input. Thanks a lot. >> > > 1) Only you can know what you will use the machine for and what you will > need. > > 2) Your needs will change so even you will get this wrong. > > The best option (IMO) is small root and boot partitions and the rest on > LVM. You can put / on LVM too if you want to fiddle with initrds. > > >
I have to agree with this one a lot. I have redone my setup many times. I to am testing the waters with EVMS. It seems that unless you have a 300GB drive with huge partitions, there is never enough room. I have considered just having a separate /boot and that is it. May lead to a lot of fragmenting over time but I wouldn't have to keep moving things around either. 5 to 6GBs for portage or distfiles has always been large enough for me though. Just run eclean-pkg and eclean-dist every once in a while to clean out the old stuff. Hope that helps a little. Dale :-) :-) :-)
