Translations:Handbook:Parts/Blocks/DesigningPartitionScheme/15/en

In most situations on Gentoo, and  should be kept relatively large in size. hosts the majority of applications available on the system and the Linux kernel sources (under ). By default, hosts the Gentoo ebuild repository (located at ) which, depending on the file system, generally consumes around 650 MiB of disk space. This space estimate excludes the and  directories, which will gradually fill with source files and (optionally) binary packages respectively as they are added to the system.