Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: >> <SNIP> >> With regards to your 47G /usr/portage partition I think that it is a waste >> of >> space. It won't harm you other than the fact that the 3.8G OS partition is >> in all likelihood too small. This is what I would do: tar the contents >> of /usr/portage elsewhere (even in the 3.8G partition - it should fit if you >> clear any cruft and, or use bzip). Delete the 47G partition and use gparted >> to enlarge the 3.8G partition to say, 8-10G. Then create a new partition >> say >> another 8-10G for /usr/portage. Then create anymore separate partitions you >> may need (for /home and what have you). mkfs as required, modify >> your /etc/fstab and move your data in your respective new partitions. If >> you >> think your fs is/are going to grow use LVM instead, otherwise primaries and >> if you need more than 4 then (extended + logical). > Well, I'm no expert but this has worked for me and this is a 4 or 5 year > old install. Your mileage may vary. From cfdisk: <snip> > As you can see, I have plenty of space available for future additions, > like a space hogging KDE 4.0. :-) The fullest one is /usr/portage > which I clean up on occasion with eclean. If I ever change them around > again, I will put /var on a separate partition but other than that, it > works pretty well. May make root smaller then as well. > A lot of this depends on what you are doing with the box tho. It's just > something you have to sort of work out as you go which may be why some > recommend EVMS or LVM. I have read up on it but just never got up the > nerve to try it yet. This is a desktop mostly used to surf the net and > run foldingathome on. > Hope this helps tho.
Thanks for the info guys. Yeah - the server has been pretty steady. I use to run it on a P90 with an 8.4 GB (7.6 formatted) hard drive running Slackware and just upgraded to the P2 with Gentoo, namely so I can keep it up to date more. I run Gentoo at work, but the firewall prevents me from getting portage updates there as they block RSYNC and FTP, and the HTTP is authenticated which causes me a lot of pain under *nix. So in some respects I am pretty new to some of this stuff per Gentoo. LVM is certainly not out of the question, I just don't have the time to rebuild the system again - especially since I just built it. So I'd need a path to getting to it. As per the the suggestion of blasting away the 47 GB partition - I'm not sure that's an option. I got away from using Logical partitions a long time ago after I moved to Linux as I found them to be too problematic - I'd never have enough space on the partition I needed space on and to rework it to have enough would require moving around others too. And, as you can see from my other e-mail, I already have 4 primary partitions on each drive (swap included); so I would certainly go to LVM instead of logical partitions. That said, the system itself won't change much, but the current drive layout is probably not the best for where space needs to really be. So I really am open to changing it, but need to do so on the fly with a few reboots and (most importantly) without reinstalling. I do realize Linux makes it pretty easy to move around from partition to partition, which I have done, just not sure how LVM plays into it - thus my other e-mail asking about a path to getting there. (FYI - I did check and LVM2's device-mapper is enabled in the kernel, so it should be pretty straight forward.) Thanks, Ben -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
