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Just for curiosity's sake. I'm installing Arch on a 250GB HD soon and I want to see what other people do. Here is what I plan on doing:
/var 512MB ReiserFS
swap 3GB
/home ~230GB Ext3
/ 15-20GB JFS
/boot 50MB Ext2 or 3
I heard that making /var first and reiser will make pacman go super-fast. I usually use some combo of reiser and ext3 anyway. I've never tried JFS, so I make "/" large because apparently you don't resize JFS.
I know that I am being a ricer, but I don't care.:cool:
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/boot 100MB Ext2
swap 500MB
/ 25GB Ext3
/home 30GB Ext3
/mnt/media 160GB JFS
You're partially right about JFS, you can't shrink it but you can grow it.
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/boot 1GB ext3
/ XFS 26,5 GB
swap 400MB
/home XFS 24GB
~/VM jfs 14GB
~/GAM jfs 68GB
it got complicated over time(note the VM and GAM folders)
-$: file /dev/zero
/dev/zero: symbolic link to '/dev/brain'
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I generally keep things quite simple and go with something like the following:
/ (about 6 to 12 GB, ext3)
swap 512 MB, swap
/home (about 6 to 12 GB, ext3)
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/boot 100MB Ext2
swap 500MB
/ 25GB Ext3
/home 30GB Ext3
/mnt/media 160GB JFSYou're partially right about JFS, you can't shrink it but you can grow it.
Ah, good to know. Thanks. Now I'm not so worried about picking a good size.
Does anybody have /var as it's own partition? I don't know how big it should be.
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I have extremely simple scheme of partitioning. There are only two partitions located on the same 250GB HDD:
/ - 20GB ext3
/home - 230GB ext3
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Does anybody have /var as it's own partition? I don't know how big it should be.
Just keep in mind that the pacman cache resides there, so make it large enough to accommodate.
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I have:
/ - 12 GB ext3
/var - 4.2 GB reiser3
/home - 161 GB ext3
The size of /var you need depends on whether you will be keeping the pacman cache of downloaded packages (which resides in /var/cache/pacman/pkg), some people never delete any old packages. I do clean mine out occasionally but having 4GB available means it doesn't matter much if I don't.
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/dev/sda1 * 1 510 4096543+ b W95 FAT32 ---> WinXP system
/dev/sda2 511 1727 9775552+ 7 HPFS/NTFS ---> WinXP data
/dev/sda3 1728 2944 9775552+ 83 Linux ---> for test installations
/dev/sda4 2945 7296 34957440 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 2945 3006 497983+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris ---> swap
/dev/sda6 3007 3068 497983+ 83 Linux ---> /tmp
/dev/sda7 3069 3079 88326 83 Linux ---> /boot
/dev/sda8 3080 3809 5863693+ 83 Linux ---> /
/dev/sda9 3810 7296 28009296 83 Linux ---> /home
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i use :
/ (159GB)
swap (1GB)
simple, isn't it ?
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About to change my partition scheme to use ReiserFS (mainly for pacman performance) instead of ext3.
Less fragmentation apparently aswell, especially without the 'notail' mount option.
Might use XFS for my data storage partition (FLAC's + MKV's), but leaning more towards ReiserFS as some article goes on about how XFS is bad for data loss or something (think it's linked to on the wikipedia article).
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/ - ~20 GB, less if small HD
swap - 1 GB
/dcs - the rest
I prefer putting all my documents in a separate partition than using home, because if I reinstall I won't want to keep my old dotfiles anyway. Also, that's for my laptops, with a single user. Otherwise, I'd make a documents partition for each user.
As for the filesystem, I use Reiser3 for now, but I wouldn't mind switching for something faster at boot. I'm looking forward to btrfs.
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As for the filesystem, I use Reiser3 for now, but I wouldn't mind switching for something faster at boot. I'm looking forward to btrfs.
No plans for online defragmentation?! When the **** are these FS developers going to wake up?
I mean seriously, ext4 is the only FS with plans for an online defrag tool at this time? Why did JFS devs abandon the porting of the OS/2 defrag tools?
/me sulks in disappointment
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hda1 32M /boot noauto,nodev,noexec,nosuid
hda2 1G swap
hda3 10G EXT
+hda5 128M / ro,noatime
+hda6 3G /var rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime
+hda7 3G /usr ro,nodev,noatime
+hda8 rest /home rw,nodev,nosuid,relatime
hda4 rest /data rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec,noatime
Last edited by elide (2008-05-27 21:00:25)
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Desktop (4gb Swap):
/dev/sdb3 146G 3.7G 142G 3% /
/dev/sda1 187G 100G 88G 54% /home
/dev/sdb2 122M 14M 102M 12% /boot
Home Server (128mb Swap):
/dev/sda6 242M 111M 132M 46% /
/dev/sda2 172M 24M 148M 14% /home
/dev/sda3 16M 8.6M 5.9M 60% /boot
/dev/sda5 727M 636M 91M 88% /usr
/dev/sda8 125M 320K 124M 1% /tmp
/dev/sda7 593M 374M 219M 64% /var
/usr is mounted read-only. /tmp is nosuid.
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hda1 32M /boot noauto,nodev,noexec,nosuid hda2 1G swap hda3 10G EXT +hda5 128M / ro,noatime +hda6 3G /var rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime +hda7 3G /usr ro,nodev,noatime +hda8 rest /home rw,nodev,nosuid,relatime hda4 rest /data rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec,noatime
could you point me to a source that would explain all those boot parameters?
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Barrucadu wrote:/boot 100MB Ext2
swap 500MB
/ 25GB Ext3
/home 30GB Ext3
/mnt/media 160GB JFSYou're partially right about JFS, you can't shrink it but you can grow it.
Ah, good to know. Thanks. Now I'm not so worried about picking a good size.
Does anybody have /var as it's own partition? I don't know how big it should be.
I don't have /var as a partition but I do have the /var/cache/pacman dir as one, however I'm using ext3 and not JFS.
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Raid+LVM with separate /boot /usr and /home partitions:
/dev/md1 19G /
/dev/md0 114M /boot
/dev/mapper/array-usr 60G /usr
/dev/mapper/array-home 378G /home
usr and home reside on /dev/md2, swap (2G) on /dev/md3
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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 9.3G 4.6G 4.3G 52% / # ext3, arch
/dev/sda3 9.3G 2.2G 6.7G 25% /mnt/sda3 # ext3, testpartition
/dev/loop/0 42G 8.8G 31G 23% /mnt/data # ext3, data (TC-container)
/dev/sda6 9.2G 2.4G 6.4G 28% /home
/dev/loop/1 20G 4.4G 15G 23% /mnt/sdb1 # ext3, backup data (TC-container)
/dev/sdb2 20G 15G 4.6G 76% /mnt/sdb2 # ext3, backup /
/dev/sdb3 20G 1.3G 18G 7% /mnt/sdb3 # ext3, backup from other laptop
/dev/sdb5 120G 64G 52G 56% /mnt/sdb5 # ext3, MP3
/dev/sdb6 4.9G 4.7G 263M 95% /mnt/sdb6 # fat32, some old win data
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elide wrote:hda1 32M /boot noauto,nodev,noexec,nosuid hda2 1G swap hda3 10G EXT +hda5 128M / ro,noatime +hda6 3G /var rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime +hda7 3G /usr ro,nodev,noatime +hda8 rest /home rw,nodev,nosuid,relatime hda4 rest /data rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec,noatime
could you point me to a source that would explain all those boot parameters?
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 7650 61440000 7 HPFS/NTFS <--- Windows Partition
/dev/sda2 7650 14945 58597087+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 14945 15431 3903795 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 15432 38913 188619165 7 HPFS/NTFS <--- Common downloads & files partition holding pictures, mp3, torrents
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/dev/md3 / reiserfs # 20000mb ~18gb
/dev/md2 swap swap # 2048 mb
/dev/md1 /boot ext2 # 100 mb
/dev/md4 /srv reiserfs # 130 gb
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/dev/sdc3 19G 4.0G 14G 23% /
none 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdc1 92M 14M 73M 16% /boot
/dev/sdc4 213G 191G 22G 90% /home
/dev/sde1 466G 460G 5.8G 99% /home/Media-1
/dev/sdf1 466G 281G 186G 61% /home/Media-2
In adition there are 2 more 250gb discs. One with windows, and one that are temporary in another box. Transfering 200GB over an adsl with 70kb/s upload isn't fun
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none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda9 none swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda7 /home ext3 defaults,rw 0 1
/dev/sda4 /var reiser4 defaults,rw 0 1
/dev/sda5 /home/sm/Games ntfs-3g locale=ru_RU.utf-8,rw,uid=1000,force 0 0
/dev/sda8 /home/sm/Media ntfs-3g locale=ru_RU.utf-8,rw,uid=1000,force 0 0
/dev/sda1 /home/sm/Sys ntfs-3g locale=ru_RU.utf-8,rw,uid=1000,force 0 0
/dev/sda6 /home/sm/Video ntfs-3g locale=ru_RU.utf-8,rw,uid=1000,force 0 0
/dev/sda2 15G 5,6G 9,2G 38% /
none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda7 40G 32G 5,7G 85% /home
/dev/sda4 4,3G 2,8G 1,6G 64% /var
/dev/sda5 37G 31G 6,3G 83% /home/sm/Games
/dev/sda8 72G 59G 13G 83% /home/sm/Media
/dev/sda1 20G 17G 3,1G 85% /home/sm/Sys
/dev/sda6 45G 35G 11G 77% /home/sm/Video
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sda1 (40GB) - Windows XP
sdb1 (40GB) - Windows Vista
sda2 (1GB) + sdb2 (1GB) - Swap
sda3 (50MB) - Boot
sda5 (8GB) + sdb3 (8GB) RAID0 (16GB) - Root
sda6 (200GB) + sdb4 (400GB) LVM (600GB) - Home
Overcomplicated? Naaa.
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