Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > On Nov 26, 2011 12:05 AM, "Mark Knecht" > wrote: > > > > > I'm exactly as you are WRT to LVM but I admired Dale for giving it a > > shot and I'm sorta feeling like I gotta start learn it just to be part > > of the group... ;-) > > > > Hey, not fair! Dale's got a headstart already with multi-partitions :-) > > > In the meantime, before I have to rebuild, I'm going to learn me some > LVM goodness... > > Rgds, > I have this on mine: / /boot /home /usr.portage /var /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs. Nice to have 16Gbs of ram. :-) sda1 Primary ext2 [boot] 197.41 sda2 Primary swap [swap] 1003.49 sda3 Primary reiserfs [root] 20003.89 sda5 Logical ext3 [blank] 5000.98 sda6 Logical ext3 [portage] 12000.69 sda7 Logical reiserfs [home] 50001.48 sda8 Logical ext3 [var] 10001.95 Here is one thing to think about on LVM. If you put /usr on a separate partition, you will need the init thingy, thanks to the dev at fedora. Yea, lower case f just like lower case w for winders. Don't make me spell it the way I want. There is a lady on this list. o_O Anyway, if you are going to do /usr on a separate partition then you may as well have LVM. You are going to have the init thingy anyway. You may as well give the whole bit a try. LVM has not really been a problem other than me trying to get my sequence and commands straight. If I was going to install again, I would likely have it all on LVM except / and /boot. After all, this is sort of the way fedora does it which is what started the init thingy, in my opinion anyway. I think a Gentoo dev, a really big one, needs to poke the fedora dev in the eye, right one since most are right eye dominant. Might make his keyboard look funny for a while. :/ The init thingy, I have tried making one and booting it. It fails each and every time. I fix one thing, something else breaks. Google finds the same problems but no fixes. I can't seem to find a howto that works for me, including the Gentoo wiki one. Dang fedora ! So, LVM, works fine just have to learn it. The init thing, sucks !! I think the partitioning scheme varies on what you are doing with your box tho. For home use, /boot, /, /home and maybe /var. You can do /usr/portage if fragmentation bothers you. I have a /data thing that I started waaaaay back when I was new on Linux and using Mandrake. I really need to move that stuff to my /home directory. I was a bit green at the time. lol I put my TV shows, .iso files and other junk on there. That is on LVM since it seems to grow. Oh, here is a funny one. Imagine walking up to the computer and seeing knotify taking up 14Gbs of ram. O_O My rig was using all the ram, some cache and slow as leap year. I kill -9'd that thing. Grrrr!! Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!