From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:31:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12606297.kP9TK3ELV4@energy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120904084712.5a916dba@digimed.co.uk>
Am Dienstag, 4. September 2012, 08:47:12 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 03:20:03 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> > I plan to partition + format the SSD in my new machine very soon.
> > The Arch wiki has an article on the subject, which says
> > that recent versions of Fdisk will safely align SSD partitions.
> >
> > Is this correct ?
>
> Yes, but all of this was covered in some detail a few days ago.
>
> > My partition scheme is
> >
> > 1 boot 0,6 0,06 /boot
> > 2 root 30 3,55 / including opt usr var
> > 3 swap 4 -- swap
> > 5 home 30 3,3 /home
> > 6 portage 15 3,43 /usr/portage (distfiles 2,3)
> > 7 z 41 1,5 /z
> >
> > total 121 19,45
>
> If it's a new machine, use a GPT rather than DOS partition table.
>
> I prefer to use a small ext2 filesystem for PORTDIR for speed and set
> DISTDIR somewhere else (a directory in /z would make sense on your system
> as the contents of DISTDIR are fairly temporary)
>
> > I use /z/tmp/ for Portage's temporary disk space.
> > Other items, eg /usr/local/ /usr/src/ wb on the HDD.
> >
> > I plan to put /tmp/ on a ram disk.
>
> If you have enough RAM, use tmpfs for /tmp and set PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/tmp.
hell no!
don't do that!
tmpfs for /tmp is fine
and
tmpfs for PORTAGE_TMPDIR is fine too. Like /var/tmp/portage.
But don't put PORTAGE_TMPDIR into /tmp. Not good. Bad idea. Really.
IF PORTAGE_TMPDIR fills up - no biggy, emerge dies, that's it. But /tmp filled
up? Suddenly you will have lots of strange problems... don't do it. Spare
yourself some headaches.
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Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-04 7:20 [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions Philip Webb
2012-09-04 7:47 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-04 20:31 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2012-09-04 20:58 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-04 21:00 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-04 21:52 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-09-05 0:42 ` Philip Webb
2012-09-05 8:23 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-05 9:02 ` Philip Webb
2012-09-05 9:23 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-09-05 11:07 ` Dale
2012-09-05 11:25 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-09-05 12:02 ` Dale
2012-09-05 12:58 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-09-05 18:02 ` Dale
2012-09-05 19:01 ` Paul Hartman
2012-09-05 20:46 ` Dale
2012-09-05 21:22 ` Paul Hartman
2012-09-05 22:36 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-09-05 12:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-05 12:52 ` Dale
2012-09-05 15:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-05 15:23 ` Michael Mol
2012-09-05 17:54 ` Dale
2012-09-05 23:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 9:13 ` Dale
2012-09-06 6:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-06 9:15 ` Dale
2012-09-06 9:47 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 10:03 ` Dale
2012-09-06 10:18 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 10:56 ` Dale
2012-09-06 10:41 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-06 11:03 ` Dale
2012-09-06 11:37 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-06 12:21 ` Dale
2012-09-06 13:27 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-06 14:27 ` Dale
2012-09-06 10:11 ` Dale
2012-09-06 10:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 10:44 ` Dale
2012-09-06 11:11 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-06 11:31 ` Dale
2012-09-06 12:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 12:44 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-06 12:48 ` Dale
2012-09-06 13:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 14:07 ` Dale
2012-09-06 14:26 ` Michael Mol
2012-09-06 16:27 ` Dale
2012-09-07 7:56 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-07 9:15 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-07 12:25 ` Dale
2012-09-07 19:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 14:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 16:32 ` Dale
2012-09-06 20:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 14:51 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-06 16:49 ` Dale
2012-09-06 13:46 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-06 14:20 ` Dale
2012-09-06 14:33 ` Michael Mol
2012-09-06 16:39 ` Dale
2012-09-06 16:00 ` Paul Hartman
2012-09-06 16:44 ` Dale
2012-09-06 20:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 21:09 ` Dale
2012-09-06 22:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 23:08 ` Dale
2012-09-07 7:47 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-07 12:35 ` Dale
2012-09-10 10:32 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-10 11:13 ` Dale
2012-09-10 12:37 ` Michael Mol
2012-09-10 13:52 ` Dale
2012-09-10 14:02 ` Michael Mol
2012-09-10 14:22 ` Dale
2012-09-05 12:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Adam Carter
2012-09-05 15:28 ` Florian Philipp
2012-09-05 9:26 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-05 16:30 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-09-05 17:02 ` Neil Bothwick
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