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How did you partition your disk before installing Linux?
Do you regret how you set it up?
I'm looking for some real users experiences about this and I'm trying to find the best approach for my setup.
Thank you for sharing!
I've tried some weird and wonderful partition schemes in the past, but I think I've settled down and just go for simplicity. Half a gig for /boot, and the rest for / (in ext4). I've tried btrfs, but I've never been in the position where I needed snapshots, and ext4 is a lot more simple.
I also like having the flexibility of not having a separate home partition. I back up my super important files, so it doesn't matter if I lose home (not that I distrohop much anymore, anyway). And I don't have to stress about whether I've made my root partition big enough. For the same reason I use a swapfile rather than a swap partition (though I do need to look in to zram and zswap) - I like knowing that I can resize it easily, even if I don't really plan on doing so.
Just recently repartitioned my MacBook:
1 GB for EFI (vfat)
2 GB for /boot (ext4)
11 GB for swap
224 GB for / (bcachefs)
Grub cannot load a kernel off bcachefs so I need ext4 to bridge the gap. Once the kernel is loaded, it has no problem using bcachefs as root.
fabien@debian2080ti:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 16G 0 16G 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.2G 1.9M 3.2G 1% /run
/dev/mapper/debian2080ti--vg-root 28G 25G 1.8G 94% /
tmpfs 16G 168K 16G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 24K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
/dev/nvme0n1p2 456M 222M 210M 52% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p1 511M 5.9M 506M 2% /boot/efi
/dev/mapper/debian2080ti--vg-home 439G 390G 27G 94% /home
tmpfs 3.2G 2.6M 3.2G 1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sda3 1.7T 1.6T 62G 97% /media/fabien/a77cf81e-fb2c-44a7-99a3-6ca9f15815091EFI
83:boot(e4fs)
8e:lvm(e4fs)
bf:zfsThis is just for /dev/sda or so, and implies non-redundant root disks because mirroring is done by the hypervisor. I've been 20 years doing virtualization, and I'm really starting to forget the last vestiges of my mdadm fdisk layout.
So many people in this thread have no idea why you'd want separate allocation for /home and /tmp and others. Are we missing proper mentorship?
with the majority here, I just use distro default / automatic setup in installer
LONG ago, I did the whole hand-crafted thing, obsessing over exactly how large each partition had to be, but with increasing speed and lowering prices of storage, this attention to detail now seems pretty irrelevant:
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hdasplit into/boot,/tmp,(swap),/,/opt,/usr,/var-
hdbsplit into(swap)and/home