From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F9k9U-0004RW-Q1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:30:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GETVD8030133; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:29:31 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1GEMRLI019196 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:22:27 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 29DE01F5D1D for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:22:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED04B1F5CD4 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:22:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.6) with ESMTP id 11302477 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:22:26 +0100 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:22:26 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <7ae6f8f0602160419w67142523p296a88b3944ce180@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7ae6f8f0602160419w67142523p296a88b3944ce180@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602161522.26819.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: a9205688-908b-4834-b72b-f895530ff254 X-Archives-Hash: 655905dd882e284df362de4d4497caf6 On Thursday 16 February 2006 13:19, Izar Ilun wrote: > I'm installing Gentoo and I'd like you to suggest me how much disc space I > should use for /. > > My machine is Pentium4, 1GB RAM, 200 GB HD ATA > > It's a desktop machine with Gentoo as the only and exclusive OS. > > Will run KDE. Amarok, OpenOffice, firefox.... > > Thanx! 40-60gb for / 2GB swap 15MB /boot rest /home you'll never fill up root, so making a lot of partitions is just wasted space. Plus, when /tmp or /var are full you are f* anyway, so no reason to put them on their own partition. Additionally, the more partitions, the more useless head movement, the slower data transfer the earlier the harddisk dies. And yes, I once put all and everything on its own partition. I learnt the hard way, that this does not solve problems, it creates them. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list