On 8/27/05, Jared Anderson wrote: > I'm running Gentoo on my laptop, I've got a 30GB hd and 768MB of ram. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > hda1 Primary Linux ext3 10239.87 > hda2 Primary Linux ext3 8023.75 > hda3 Primary Linux ext3 10739.96 > hda4 Primary Linux swap 1002.26 > > hda1 is the / directory, hda3 is my home directory. hda2 is used for miscellaneous > experiments (other distros, other O/S, temporary file storage, etc.). > > Some people like the set a partition aside for the /boot directory, but I don't: it > gets to cluttered for my retentiveness. > > At the very minimum, I recommend separate partitions for the /, /home, and swap > partition. 10GB should be plenty for a / directory. 'They' say your swap file > should be be 1-2x as big as the amount of system memory; however, my swap file is > rarely used. The size of the /home partition should be big enough to hold your MP3s. ;) I setup 512M for swap, I wasn't using swap much anyways, unless I had like a dozen programs open :-P. 64M for /boot, 512M for /, 3G for /var (both from handbook example), 10G for /usr (from example and irc) and the rest, 42G went to /home. -- -Dragos Neagu <>< "If I have been able to see farther, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants." - Sir Isaac Newton "Open source is like science, closed source is like witchcraft" - Linus Torvalds --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss