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CaptainKirk

Member

Registered: 2009-06-07

Posts: 393

New Install

I have a PC which runs a distro known as ArchLinux. Now I got a fancy new PC and I am so happy with this distro that I want to install it again!

Here is what I have on the old machine:

$ df -H
Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                    11M   168k    11M   2% /dev
/dev/disk/by-uuid/d9383ddd-35dd-406a-b0d1-1fe7a753d9b5
                        25G    19G   4.8G  80% /
none                   1.1G   2.2M   1.1G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1              192M    16M   167M   9% /boot
/dev/sdb5               99G    34G    61G  36% /srv
/dev/sdb6              188G   121G    58G  68% /home

This new one has a 1TG diskdrive.Has a i5 with 4G RAM. Any suggestions how I should partition the new one?

Seems my /home should have a larger percentage of the new disk because it's the fullest. Aside from that, I guess the same basic setup, proportional to my new disk?

Thanks.

SS4

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From: !Rochford, Essex

Registered: 2010-12-05

Posts: 699

Re: New Install

I'd be tempted to stick any media you have on it's own partition too and make that one largest.

/ = 40GB
/home = 220GB
/var = 40GB (if you intend to keep a large cache of packages, otherwise about 10GB)
/boot = 1GB

/mnt/Videos = 510GB
/mnt/Music = Whatever's left

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: New Install

100 MB for /boot is enough, but on a 1TB drive it shouldn't matter much. /var on a separate partition or not - it's really up to you.
How about LVM https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lvm ?

Inxsible

Forum Fellow

From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: New Install

This has been beaten to death.

As the wiki mentions :

Partition Scheme
A disk partitioning scheme is a very personalized preference. Each user's choices will be unique to their own computing habits and requirements.

Also there are many many threads on this very subject.
Closing...

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