Get help on partitioning here [Part 2]

[NeddySeagoon]

daglamier22,

With 8G RAM, you can build everything except libreoffice in RAM and you might just squeeze that in. It needs 6G at the moment.
You can also have /tmp in RAM, which you might as well, as its wiped on boot anyway.

A 512Mb swap will be plently - if you need more, you are doing something wrong.
You can add a swip file later if there is really the need.

/home should not inclcude your music/movies or other media stuff you want in another OS.
/home is for your users private data and personal settings.

/boot on the SSD will speed booting but only marginally. Its a personal preferance.
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[snoopy86]

Hi.

I'm installing gentoo for the first time. How should i partition my disk?

Whole 250gb disk is going to be used for gentoo, there will be no dual boot. There is 2gb of ram which will be increased to 4gb.

Computer is going to be used for programming, i have some music and videos.

Thanks for the help.

[NeddySeagoon]

snoopy86,

Welcome to Gentoo.

With >=2G ram you should do a amd64 install.
You do not need a separate /boot partition as every recent BIOS can read the entire HDD but its harmless and may make it easier for you to follow the handbook.
For swap, choose 512Mb or 4G, depending on your need to hibernate to RAM. 4G will allow hibernate to work with your bigger RAM.
You will need a / partition of 40G. This will let you build a esktop Gentoo without flushing source files.
You might also like a /home partition. The advantage of a separate /home is that it is easy to preserve over reinstalls, should you feel the need.

So,

/boot 64Mb ext2
<swap> 512Mb or 4G
/ <root> 40G or rest of drive ext4
/home rest of drive ext4

With 4G RAM you can consider putting /tmp and /var/tmp/portage into shmfs.
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[leozk]

I want to set up an encrypted partition
I have windows installed, I need a /boot partition and an encrypted luks volume like this:

---/boot
---luks
-----lvm
-------/root
-------swap

[gcb]

i usually split /var for performance/security reasons. set 4Gb for it

no problem until i tried to install libreoffice... it used a lot MORE than 4gb to compile.

had to do