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Hi All
I have just picked up a new 250gb HDD and i'm going to do a clean install of arch & openbox and would like to know what people would suggest for various partition sizes ?
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/root
/swap
etc
I have 4gb ram so not sure if swap is a required !
Many Thanks
Last edited by whitetimer (2010-11-15 09:58:47)
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If you don't want hibernation you probably don't need swap. Otherwise, do 5-10gb for / and the rest for /home
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Be aware of an ever increasing /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ - with only 10GB it may get tight at times depending on how much you play around/what you use your box for. Otherwise I'd keep it as simple as poss if we are talking about your desktop. For other uses you may get added security from separate partitions.
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+1 on KlavKalashj's advice!
When the installer warns you about there not being a /boot partition either(besides the swap), then just select ignore, it's no problem at all!
If you do want a swap partiton(and don't hibernate), then I would say max 1gb imho.
For an Openbox based install, then I would say 10GB is more than enough(mine's 5, although with a tiling WM: Musca).
I don't keep the cache forever increasing, but empty it at times where I know everything is OK. Also, there's scripts available which cleans the cache up, like e.g. only keeping one revision back of each package.
Last edited by mhertz (2010-11-15 09:47:18)
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Thats great advice ... Many thanks !!!
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you can also change the CacheDir in pacman.conf to your /home partition
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