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fwempa

Member

Registered: 2006-02-19

Posts: 15

Partiioning in Arch vs gentoo, where pacman like to install

In gentoo, i had relatively large /etc and /opt partitions because gentoo seemed to like to put stuff there.

Does pacman install to certain places more than others.  Does anyone have a recommended partitioning setup suitable to where arch tends to bloat?  I have 20gB to work with.  Was thinkingL

/
/etc
/boot
/swap
/etc
/srv
/home

Please avoid the /, /boot, and /swap answers, thanks.

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Partiioning in Arch vs gentoo, where pacman like to install

You don't need a seperate partition for /etc. My /etc is only 5MB.  Here's my setup:

/dev/hda5             471M  112M  335M  26% /
/dev/hda6             5.5G  2.9G  2.4G  55% /usr
/dev/hda7             2.8G  2.3G  353M  87% /var
/dev/hda8              19G  8.4G  9.1G  48% /home
/dev/hda11             28G   25G  1.8G  94% /mnt/music
/dev/hda12            6.0G  1.8G  3.9G  32% /opt

My /var is relatively big because it's there that pacman download the packages and I like to keep a copy in case I need to reinstall something. The /opt partition is there because I made my / partition too small. Several packages go in /opt: kde, gnome, xfce4, mozilla stuff, OO, etc.

fwempa

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Registered: 2006-02-19

Posts: 15

Re: Partiioning in Arch vs gentoo, where pacman like to install

Thank you very much for the succinct and direct response.