HDD

Typical Linux partitioning

fdisk /dev/sda

/dev/sda1  Boot partition (32MB)
/dev/sda2  Swap partition (512MB)
/dev/sda3  Root partition (xxGB)
/dev/sda4  Portage tree partition (2GB)

p

n
p
1
enter
+32M

n
p
2
enter
+512M

n
p
3
enter
+25GB

n
p
4
enter
enter


a
1

t
2
82

p
w

Formating

mke2fs /dev/sda1

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3

mkfs.xfs /dev/sda4

mkswap /dev/sda2

Mounting

swapon /dev/sda2

mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo

mkdir -p /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage

mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage

mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot

Volume labels

(tune2fs -L boot /dev/hda4)

(tune2fs -L swap /dev/hda4)

tune2fs -L root /dev/sda3

(tune2fs -L portage /dev/sda4)