Re: Gentoo Filesystem Setup

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Author: Prescott Oelke
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Gentoo Filesystem Setup
Alright, well I decided to put my swap of 1 gig and the /home on one
drive. The other one has one partition for /boot (128 megs) and the
rest to the root filesystem. I formatted the /boot partition with ext2
(I think I could've used ext3 too but I wanted to be safe) and the
other partitions were formatted with XFS. System is compiling
now....and compiling...and compiling...

:)

On 5/15/05, Kevin Brown <> wrote:
> > If I remember correctly, Gentoo doesn't automatically mount the /boot
> > so if the system crashes, the /boot partition is left alone, no need
> > for a mirroring system. At one point you couldn't boot from anything
> > but ext2, but I think that is long gone.
>
> I think the issue of booting from non-ext2 partitions was that the
> modules for those have to be compiled into the kernel or need an initrd
> to be able to read them. This isn't a distro specific problem.
>
> > One thing I want to play with is LVM. I had set up my video server
> > and didn't do LVM. Now I added a drive and had to change the setup
> > slightly. With the LVM, I could have added the drive and extended
> > the video partition to include it.
> >
> > Oh well, next time I upgrade that box.
>
> Sounds interesting.
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