> >> I use allways 12GB disk space for partitions to build LFS in - so > >> nearly all available disks nowadays should be fine. A 32GB mSATA is a > >> bit small, but every size above should be fine also. But that depends > >> on what else you want to have on disk beside LFS. > >> > > > > To quote Marvin: It amazes me how you manage to live in anything that > > small.
My version development goes through several phases, and what I build is by common standards quite modest. For building I generally use a 20GB partition because of all the detritus. During "refinement" and for daily use generally 15 is sufficient. I have a few 1st & 2nd generation i7's I can use as "compiling engines" for building, but my "daily driver" so to speak is a Core2-Duo Conroe, and I have no complaints save for the piggish Libre Office. If I did I'd be using one of the i7's but I'm not. > > > > And anyone using LFS long-term really needs at least two systems > > (current and next), plus (of course) /home, space for sources, and > > somewhere to build. Yes, every drive/box has at least two functioning systems on it. I don't use a separate /home. But every system has its set of build scripts, source tarballs, and as-built package-managed binaries (making essentially two copies of the system) all the time. At the drop of a hat I can reload any package I question, or compare the original binaries to what's there now. When I clone an as-built system I have the option of not loading all that stuff, but with the size of drives in the last several years I haven't needed to except for testing to make sure that option works. Generally I fdisk a drive with one "large" last partition as a "storage heap" shared but not "used" by all the others. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
