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 1F9kbU-0001Y7-44 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:59:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GEvxsr021960; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:57:59 GMT Received: from gateway2.delphi.com (gateway2.delphi.com [12.47.224.17]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1GEq192020717 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:52:01 GMT Received: from USMITRY-MX05.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net ([144.250.137.52]) by gateway2.delphi.com (MOS 3.7.2-GA) with ESMTP id BVQ75420; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:51:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from USMITRY-MX02.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net ([144.250.137.43]) by USMITRY-MX05.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net with InterScan Messaging Security Suite; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:52:05 -0500 Received: from DEWUP-MX02.Europe.DelphiAuto.net ([130.171.200.162]) by USMITRY-MX02.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:51:57 -0500 Received: from dewup-ww02.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net ([10.233.7.145]) by DEWUP-MX02.Europe.DelphiAuto.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:51:13 +0100 Received: from s08nfs.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net (s08nfs [206.122.137.180]) by dewup-ww02.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24DEDB31 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:51:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.233.7.145] (dewup-ww02.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net [10.233.7.145]) by s08nfs.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1AAE2643 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:51:12 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <43F49160.4020701@mid.message-center.info> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:51:12 +0100 From: Alexander Skwar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060104 Thunderbird/1.0.7 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? References: <7ae6f8f0602160419w67142523p296a88b3944ce180@mail.gmail.com> <43F4782D.4070706@mid.message-center.info> <20060216151440.5ac34bea.apn@o2.pl> In-Reply-To: <20060216151440.5ac34bea.apn@o2.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Feb 2006 14:51:13.0109 (UTC) FILETIME=[6E5EA850:01C63308] X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k1GEq192020717 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k1GEvxtA021960 X-Archives-Salt: de127927-5411-45e4-994f-d403761ea7ce X-Archives-Hash: 1d3f22b6a8b66d8d8e367e78f2c215cb apn@o2.pl wrote: >> > I'm installing Gentoo and I'd like you to suggest me how much disc s= pace >> > I should use for /. >>=20 >> 512 MB. >>=20 >> The rest should go to filesystems for /var, /usr, >> /opt and /home. And maybe also additional filesystems >> fo >=20 > This is (part) what i have mount > i`ve instales stuff for workstation (no kde, no gnome - only libs from = them) + loot of dev. tools=20 >=20 > $ df > System plik=F3w rozm. u=BFyte dost. %u=BF. zamont. na > /dev/hda8 14G 9,8G 3,4G 75% / > udev 252M 180K 252M 1% /dev > /dev/hda5 31M 6,7M 23M 24% /boot > /dev/hda7 3,3G 1,3G 2,0G 40% /var > /dev/hda10 22G 19G 2,3G 89% /home > /dev/hda11 2,5G 242M 2,2G 10% /tmp > /dev/hda9 1,5G 1,4G 26M 99% /mnt/ftp Hm, as I said before - have a look at LVM. It makes life *SO* much easier. I don't quite get, why people still do the old style partitioning. For example, in your setup, how do you make /var larger, if need be? With LVM, it would just be a matter of "lvresize -L+512m /dev/Volume00/Va= r". You also wouldn't waste so much space. Alexander Skwar --=20 BOFH Excuse #126: it has Intel Inside --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list