wtry@lemm.eecake to Linux@lemmy.ml · 11 months agoWhat are the best practices to partition a linux system with?message-squaremessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up1127arrow-down14
arrow-up1123arrow-down1message-squareWhat are the best practices to partition a linux system with?wtry@lemm.eecake to Linux@lemmy.ml · 11 months agomessage-square63fedilink
minus-squareneo (he/him)@lemmy.comfysnug.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·11 months ago 500mb-600mb fat32 /boot partition 40gb - 100gb ext4 or btrfs / partition (if you know you’re gonna install a lot of software, go bigger) 1x - 2x ram as swap rest of disk as ext4 /home partition
minus-squareNanoooK@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·11 months agoWhy not BRTFS for the /home partition?
minus-squareneo (he/him)@lemmy.comfysnug.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·11 months agoswap is there so u can hibernate rather than shutdown
minus-squaredevfuuu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoYeah, 32g is barely enough for what I do daily at work, so I have similar amount of ram combined with similar amount of swap file so I can safely hibernate even when the ram is full.
minus-squareSkull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-27 months ago[This comment has been deleted by an automated system]
Why not BRTFS for the /home partition?
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swap is there so u can hibernate rather than shutdown
Yeah, 32g is barely enough for what I do daily at work, so I have similar amount of ram combined with similar amount of swap file so I can safely hibernate even when the ram is full.
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