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b1tH1de0

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Registered: 2013-06-05

Posts: 17

questions concerning new partitioning scheme

Hi

Since I'll be upgrading my home and office workstations soon, I've decided to tinker a little with my current "go-to" partition scheme to better serve my current project needs.

Let's start with the office workstation. Here's the current scheme:

[256GB SSD]
sda1			# Windows boot
sda2			128GB            # Windows system
sda3					ext2			500MB		/boot
sda4            # encrypted
	vault
		vg										# LVM
		lv_root			ext4			28GB		/
		lv_swap			swap			8GB		swap
		lv_opt			ext4			6-8GB		/opt
		lv_var			etx4		        24GB		/var
		lv_tmp			ext2			2GB		/tmp
		lv_home			ext4			[free-10GB]	/home
		free

And here is my current concept:

[256GB SSD]
sda1			# Windows boot
sda2			128GB            # Windows system
sda3					ext2			250-500MB		/boot
sda4            # encrypted
	vault
		vg									        # LVM
		lv_root			ext4			26-30GB		/
		lv_swap			swap			4-8GB		swap
		lv_var			etx4		        12-16GB		/var
		lv_varlib		etx4?	                24-36GB		/var/lib
		lv_vartmp		etx4/reiserfs?	        2-4GB		/var/tmp
		lv_tmp			ext2?			2GB		/tmp
		lv_home			ext4			[free-10GB]	/home
		free

Basically the whole concept behind the change is to maximize /var flexibility/performance with applications like VMs (KVM) and containers (Docker). Was thinking about substituting LVM model with btrfs subvolume model, but I'm not convinced with it's maturity for production (will be a good choice for home workstation do).

Questions
1. Is separating /var/lib a good idea in those terms?
2. If so, what fs would fit in?
3. Should I consider creating separate partitions for other locations?
4. Any other tweaks/ideas that might come in hand?
5. (bonus) Which filesystems would You recommend for better compilation performance (ReiserFS/Reiser4/tmpfs)?