How do you set up your partitions? Do you just put everything into one partition, or separate /home, /var, etc.?
I always just shove everything into one partition (not including a swap partition) but I'm wondering if I've been doing it all wrong. What does Jow Forums do?
/boot luks with lvm container for root, home and swap recently added 3rd partition with full fledged read-only linux (basically what you'd find on a live disc)
on a side note: if you put swap on a disk hdd, make sure it is located in the outermost sectors you can read/write faster there
OS is on two SSDs running in RAID0 Old Data is on a 1tb hard drive in one single partition New data is on another 1tb hard drive separated into fast access and data storage. Fast access is a 200gb partition on the outside of the disk which gives it better read/write times. Archived data is on a 500gb hardrive in a single partition.
3 Partitions, One Swap, other one is Root and the last one is the rest of my SSD, that is mounted as data and I put everything there, I make symlinks to the Data mounted partition from home folders such as ~/Downloads, documents, music, etc, so that way whenever I put a file inside /home on these folders the synlinks do its trick and is automatically backed up, on the partition that I never erase and always have all my files. Is like having a different home partition without the hassle of having to get permissions to make modifications on the home folder when you reinstall a distro.
Julian Collins
>using physical media to install Linux Why am I not surprised it's a frogpost?
Multiple partitions were important historically, and still have their place in many systems... but one partition (excluding swap and efi) for everything is better for 90% of systems. The only reason for multiple on home systems is when you need to protect data from frequent reinstalls: ie /home
Levi Lopez
>I've been doing it all wrong. Kinda, it's a lot easier to reinstall the system if you have a / and a /home partition. You format the first and leave the second untouched.
Lately I'm using the template from Debian: var, home, root and swap. I think it's more secure but it's not mandatory to do it.
Jack King
128 GB ssd to root, 2tb hdd to home
Evan Baker
/boot esp and basically a bunch of crypt Dev mappers and btrfs.
On my application btrfs part /srv, I have per application subvolumes that I make read only snapshots and backup individually onto another multidevice array using xfs.
Thomas Baker
haha what a retard i just install mine from the cloud
Jonathan Reyes
Proof Linux is a meme
William Gomez
30GB / 2x RAM for swap 4GB /tmp rest of the drive is /home
Jeremiah Martinez
Single partition, when I reinstall I'd rather not carry over old config files and all my data is on separate drives anyway
Justin Ward
>5GB vfat EFI partition You mean 5MB, right?
Austin Martin
1 partition for root and one EFI partition I mount on /boot
Lucas Scott
It's the retarded tripfag, of course he meant 5GB.
Elijah Gray
As few partitions as necessary. Sometimes you need a boot partition. Swap partitions too.
Julian Cox
Multiple partitions & everything on LVM2 or something else that allows reallocating space.
Jayden Campbell
All in one partition because I'm bad at my job.
Isaiah Hall
separate /home in case I fuck up everything else
Blake Long
>Only one encrypted partition on disk >partition is an LVM with two logical volumes
>one for swap >one for everything else
Owen Clark
Arch machine is: / 20GB /Boot 512MB /Home everything else Use a swap file
Windows is: C:/512 GB SSD D:/ striped ntfs array of 2x2tb drives for steamlibrary E:/ a 2tb drive for some local media, documents, vanilla game files before modding. Z:/ is a mapped network drive to my NAS
FreeNAS machine is: / 120 gb SSD /Volumes/Share is a 3x3tb Z1 array with most of it assigned to a giant samba instance. Everything else is a few small jails
Christian Robinson
750gb ssd as a single LVM VG and PG everything else is a bunch of LVs
NAS at home has several NFS shares that get mounted with autofs to various points on /media /media/isos /media/backups /media/music ...etc...
i just grow the LVs when I need to
Jose Edwards
>/ >/var >/tmp >/home >swap
Caleb White
>haha what a retard i just install mine from the cloud Ah yes, the cloud that you connect to when your system doesn't have an OS installed. Wait a sec...
Ian Hall
>he doesn't know about iPXE you can literally boot from an http server over wifi lmfao
Luis Davis
Can you install Linux over that?
Levi Roberts
Everything in one place and no swap
Jack Kelly
why all you fags have huge swaps? assuming you dont hibernate and have at least 2G ram. that’s nasty. jesus christ
Swap isn't needed anyway. And I hope no one uses tmpfs for security purposes with a swap file cause I got bad news for you.
Jacob Hall
gay: the posts
sane person use the following: >/dev >/sys >/lib >/lib64 >/proc
Brody Roberts
well ipxe is a bootloader... you can basically boot any arbitrary kernel (check the multiboot standard for specifics) from any arbitrary location - FTP, SAN, HTTP, HDD, whatever. so, if there's some .iso on an FTP or HTTP server somewhere... like cdimage.debian.org/
you do the math
Benjamin Sanders
X: boot partition - BOOTMGR and WinRE. D: data partition, page file, hosts VHD. C: VHD holding Windows.
Sebastian Powell
>they don't know how or why to short stroke a hard drive
/ /boot /boot/efi /home /swap /shit in ntfs to share with windows
Owen Morris
Everyone has a different setup. Which one is the right one? Obviously /home is good to be separate so you don't lose it if you reinstall, but which of the partitions are actually needed to separate from / directory?
Wyatt Adams
I only have separate /boot and swap because I'm lazy and follow the default Ubuntu installer.
Nicholas Bell
i'm going to make a fresh install soon for my desktop linux wich i hibernate a lot and for when i'm at work i will also put an openvpn on it it will be: 24g / 8g swap 32g /home rest of the 2T hdd /data
Aaron Martinez
256MB ESP 4GB swap -1 root What are you doing in /boot that requires 700MB? I thought my 256 was way overkill
Boot, root and swap all separate on ssd. Home resides on my hdd
Caleb Moore
>swap >ssd dude realy?
Tyler Williams
Yes, can't afford more ram right now so the ssd has to be a surrogate.
Adrian Phillips
Symlinks, since first time I used a different home partition I had trouble with permissions when installed another distro, couldn't access to the data and was unmodifiable and had to spend time googling what was wrong, so fuck it. Symlinks are pretty straightforward, and if you're using an SSD + HDD setup you can symlinks all your bullshit (important data) while keeping the dotfiles, and the rest in the SSD for muh speed.
Luke Gonzalez
Separate /home. I still just tar everything up and wipe everything.
Logan Jenkins
/boot gets 250MB / gets the rest No swap
Charles Cox
>Having unused pages memory when under memory pressure
I use FDE so I have: /boot 200MB LVM: / 20GB swap 4GB /home rest of the disk
Ayden Johnson
Is there any reason NOT to have a separate /home just in case, though?
Gavin Robinson
idk about you but if I'm going to reinstall, I'd just as soon nuke /home along with everything else. I'm going to be restoring from backups and installing packages and copying config files anyway.
>short-stroking what is this, 2003? Tuning like that always comes back to bite you in the ass anyway.
Zachary Johnson
Can one of you fags help my dumbass? Currently creating partions as Swap /home Is this fine?
Hudson Hernandez
I just do / and /home. Other drives are in /media.