From: dmcbride@naboo.to.org.no.spam.for.me   
      
   Aragorn wrote:   
      
   > (1) How much diskspace would I need to allocate for...   
      
   I did this once when I first set up Gentoo, splitting up everything.  Man,   
   oh man, what a pain.  I seriously underestimated how much space is required   
   outside of /home.   
      
   Then I later bought a second disk (first one being 200GB, new one at 500GB),   
   put swap, /boot, and / on the first disk (swap at 8GB, /boot as 40MB   
   [complete overkill], and / as the rest), and /home on the second disk.   
   Just soooo much easier that way.  Now I'm using ~40GB in /, and 254GB   
   in /home (and 133GB on an external disk that I only use for 'offline'   
   storage - stuff I don't need often).  Really simple.   
      
   So, personally, I'd be inclined to set up similarly again.  Set up a   
   20-40MB /boot partition (I only keep 3 kernels around, and it's using 10MB,   
   so you can figure out how much room you want).  Set up your swap.  Set up   
   your read-only / with about 15GB of space (which should be excessive).  And   
   the rest goes in /home (which is probably your most dynamic read-write   
   space anyway).  Then create /home/root, and bind-mount any other read-write   
   directories under there, e.g., /usr/src would be a bind-mount   
   to /home/root/usr/src, etc.   
      
   > - /usr   
   > - /usr/src   
   > - /usr/portage   
   > - /usr/local   
   > - /srv   
   > - /opt   
   > ... in a basic server installation and in a basic workstation   
   > installation?  (I will be using the XFS filesystem for all slices   
   > and the machine is hooked up to two UPSes.)   
      
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