Our current example isn't very helpful: "As an example partitioning, we show you one for a 20GB disk, used as a demonstration laptop"... Maybe we could update this for a more modern system? Something like: / 500M /boot 250M /opt 5G /usr 20G /var 10G /home * (the rest) This is based on my laptops - I have about 15G used in /usr (including portage distfiles), 10G for /var is mainly for WORKDIR and ccache, /opt is a guess, I don't seem to have anything in there. I _think_ it's a typical setup but I might be weird. ;D
Don't forget how popular netbooks and low-storage devices like "affordable" SSDs are. On my desktop, I only have a 30GB SSD for /, so I had to buy a 16GB SSD for /var and /usr/portage. The examples work fine; don't forget the actual configuration used throughout the handbook, mentioned a couple of paragraphs up: Partition Filesystem Size Description /dev/sda1 ext2 32M Boot partition /dev/sda2 (swap) 512M Swap partition /dev/sda3 ext3 Rest of the disk Root partition That example there is pretty good for showing all the things you can put on even a small hard disk. I like it as-is, so for now I'll mark this WORKSFORME. However, we've got some other pending bugs for GPT, filesystems, and other disk-related things, so don't be surprised if you see this example change more closely to your suggestion. Thanks for the ideas!
