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From: Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions
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On 09/04/14 09:53, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a new SSD 480GB drive and I'm trying to partition it.  It was some
>> time before I went through this so I found this information:
>> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD
>>
>> But they omitted the Boot partition.
>>  Device           Start          End   Size Type
>>  /dev/sda1         2048         6143     2M BIOS boot partition
>>  /dev/sda2         6144      4200447     2G Linux swap
>>  /dev/sda3      4200448    117231374  53.9G Linux filesystem
>>
>> There is Bios Boot 2MB but no Boot partition where kernel is located.
>>
>> The instruction from official Gentoo web-page is difference from display I'm
>> getting on my screen when I use "fdisk"
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=4
>>
>> I don't have an option of extended partition not can I make Boot partition
>> /dev/sda2 (128MB) bootable by pressing "a" in fdisk.
>>
>> --
>> Joseph
>>
>
>While not an SSD user, I too had to set up gentoo from scratch on a
>laptop recently. I followed the disk partitioning instructions given
>in the handbook, with the following partitions created:
>
>Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
>/dev/sda1             1         3      5198+  ef  EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
>/dev/sda2   *         3        14    105808+  83  Linux
>/dev/sda3            15        81    506520   82  Linux swap
>/dev/sda4            82      3876  28690200   83  Linux

I think this is an example like in the handbook, the problem is the gpt partition printout will look slightly different, so I got confused at the beginning. 
What I have noticed is that these example don't show creating partition for "home' I think home now is on root partition sda4.

-- 
Joseph