Hi, On Tuesday 05 April 2005 08:46, Colin wrote: > Just some questions about partitioning and filesystems... my boot > partition (/dev/hda1) will be ext3, and I've got a gig of swap > (/dev/hda2). Then what?
ext3 for /boot is just overkill. Since /boot is alsmost never mounted, the journal is just a waste of space. You only write to /boot when you install your new kernel and a crash in that few seconds is very unlikly (and will be a disaster with every fs), so go the easy way, ext2 for /boot is fine. Apropos space 15mb are well enough for /boot so a small ext2 will be fine. For the rest, if you are the only one who uses your box, one big partition for / and one for /home will be fine. If not, a part for /var and /tmp should be considered. How big each depends on the size of your harddisk and personal taste. reisefs is well suited for that task, xfs has a habit of replacing files with zeros, when the box crashes (this is a security feature, but quite hazardous for your data). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
