I accidentally murdered .:{whimsy}:. 1.0 with GParted…
Who hasn’t done that once, twice, three times???
Partition Scheme:
WD Raptor
P sda1 /boot 100 ext3
P sda2 / 10240 ext3
P sda3 SWAP 8192 SWAP
E sda4 EXTD 113583 EXTD
L sda5 /tmp 30720 xfs
L sda6 /var 30720 xfs
L sda7 /usr 20480 xfs
L sda8 /usr/portage 10240 xfs
L sda9 /usr/portage/distfiles 10240 xfs
L sda10 /opt 20480 xfs
L sda11 /vault 1687 xfs
Hitachi 1TB
P sdb1 /home 1024000 xfs
NOTES:
Why so many partitions???
PERFORMANCE!!!
WHY split off /tmp & /var into their own partitions??
For Virtual Memory Caching & Usage
What’s with /usr & /usr/portage & /usr/portage/distfiles
That’s for the package manager and parallel compilations, on *NIX systems you COMPILE source code into programs instead of plunking binaries into directories, well on Gentoo and Lunar and The BSD’s and some other systems…
What’s with /opt being split off into it’s own partition?
That’s because I have special and proprietary programs I don’t want to lose the source code to. When I have to reinstall, if ever I choose to, they are cozy and safe on /opt.
/home…
EVERYONE should have their /home drive on a SEPERATE HARD DRIVE IMNSHO (In My Not So Humble Opinion) Life is just Safer that way. Trust Me tm.
That’s about it for now…
/last udated: november 07, 2008
