▲ 123 ▼ What are the best practices to partition a linux system with? (lemm.ee) submitted 3 years ago by wtry@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml 64 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] buwho@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 years ago (2 children) i usually have efi boot partition (512mb), / (linux root), /home (i usually make this pretty big) , and swap partition. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 years ago Same, except I also keep /var on a separate partition (old FreeBSD habit), as the I/O characteristics of /var are usually very different from rest of / permalink fedilink source parent [–] Frederic@beehaw.org 5 points 3 years ago Same: EFI, then / is small like 50GB, and home is the remaining of disk. My swap is the size of RAM so I could hibernate but in fact never use it really, as my system either sleep or if shutdowned, can boot in a few seconds. You cannot go wrong with the setup from @buwho@lemmy.ml. There was a time when I had (and we needed) complicated partition... one for / really small like a few MB, and basically one for bin, etc, var, use, home, tmp (not a lot of RAM at the time so tmp was on disk, not in ram) etc. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 years ago Same, except I also keep /var on a separate partition (old FreeBSD habit), as the I/O characteristics of /var are usually very different from rest of / permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 5 points 3 years ago Same: EFI, then / is small like 50GB, and home is the remaining of disk. My swap is the size of RAM so I could hibernate but in fact never use it really, as my system either sleep or if shutdowned, can boot in a few seconds. You cannot go wrong with the setup from @buwho@lemmy.ml. There was a time when I had (and we needed) complicated partition... one for / really small like a few MB, and basically one for bin, etc, var, use, home, tmp (not a lot of RAM at the time so tmp was on disk, not in ram) etc. permalink fedilink source parent