I won't answer you with a size since its mainly depends on your own needs, but don't you know that solutions like lvm or evms provide lots of flexibility to manage your HD resources ? I advise you to look at lvm howto. It allows you to add/remove/move/enlarge your partitions as you need in a truly painless way. To avoid major mounting problems (can be done but with caution), let /boot and / outside lvm, and put the others in logical volumes.
Gal' On Dec 20, 2007 10:50 AM, Benjamen R. Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I set up a server system a little while ago, and in performing updates > to portage it ran out of disk space as I didn't quite allow enough space > on the root partition (3.8 GB). As a result, I took a partition that I > had cleaned up (this was from a rebuild of a system that was a different > distro in the past) and moved over /usr/portage to it. It's a 47 GB > partition (as reported by df -h) and the system works fine. > > I do realize that if the mount command got screwed up, I'd probably have > issues recovering the system, but that is that system. > > I am now thinking of converting my desktop over to Gentoo as well, and > was wondering whether what I did above on the server was wise or not. I > will be using the server as the portage provider for my desktop too. > Otherwise, what is the recommended space to have available for the > portage tree in /usr/portage so I can have root as an appropriately > sized partition? > > TIA, > > Ben > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
