Just added a few more gigs

Mr Green · 2006-06-28 13:30:25

I have put a 250gb Sata drive into my system

Now I want to partition it & install Arch

What would be a good table to set up given my old 80gb would be handy for /media

I could do with a /boot (ext2!) / & /home to start with

What size and what filesystems should I set up on them ?

Mr Green · 2006-06-28 20:17:11

BUMP

guess its ext3 all the way

elasticdog · 2006-06-28 20:52:56

Probably all I would add would be a <code>/var</code> partition, depending on what services you'll have running on your machine. Aside from that, you've got plenty of room to play with and I don't think it's real worth while to divide it up futher (especially for a home machine). My 80GB drive looks like this after being used for about a year:

Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 reiserfs     23G  8.9G   15G  39% /
/dev/hda1     ext2     92M   11M   77M  12% /boot
/dev/hda6 reiserfs    3.9G  199M  3.7G   6% /var
/dev/hda8 reiserfs     46G  1.7G   45G   4% /home

So you could do something like this and be more than fine:

/boot    100M
/var     3G
/home    200G
/       ~46G
/media   80G (old HDD)

One other idea would be to leave some of that extra room (from either /home or /) and just leave it empty to mess around with other distros, or install Windows...whatever. OHHH, and it might be a good idea to make a partion for swap space on both hard drives so it can be used a bit more efficiently. Have fun!

Mr Green · 2006-06-28 21:17:23

cool will give it a go ;-)

Thanks man

kishd · 2006-06-29 05:40:03

Mr green consider adding a small partition for /var/lib/pacman so that the pacman db does not get fragmented and slow the main man down.

Mr Green · 2006-06-29 05:57:26

would that be just as well to use /var mount for that ?

I am thinking of

100 mb /boot
20gb /
5gb /var
~225gb /home

could make a /var/lib/pacman is I drop /boot or could make a logical partition :?

I have always run with two partition / & /home now I have the chance to add more its more difficult to decide ;-)

O /swap I will stick on old drive just to be safe ....

kishd · 2006-06-29 07:16:48

IMHO I think a 500mb extended ext3 partition for /var/lib/pacman will do nicely

Mr Green · 2006-06-29 07:21:48

emmm might be worth a shot.... I can always change it ;-)

Mr Green · 2006-06-29 07:25:14

Is there any real need for a separate /boot partition ?

kishd · 2006-06-29 07:35:40

This thread may help

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … acman+cage

It is a script to keep the pacman db as defragmented as possible. However I found (bear in mind that I am a noob who likes playing with th os) that it is far easier to just give the db it's own partition.

I have tried installing the os a number of times and found that if /boot has its own partition (ext2) installing the boot loader works better. When I tried to put the /boot under / in a single partition the bootloader did not install in 4 out of 5 installations. This may have just been due to my inexperience.

iphitus · 2006-06-29 07:37:39

if you're only going to have one system running on it, no not really, if you decide to dual boot, then it may help, but i never bothered with it and just used my Arch system as the host/bootloader system. choice really.

what about swap? if you are going to have it, chuck it near the start of the disk.

James

Mr Green · 2006-06-29 09:10:12

@J I was going to stick a 1gb swap on old drive .....

thinking now

100 mb /boot

20gb /root

some for /var

rest for /home

1gb of ram installed should not (hopefully!) need swap but better safe than sorry

Most users are saying stick with ext3 for fs ....

Thought you Arch gurus ran reiser4 or stuff like that lol

iphitus · 2006-06-29 10:04:49

Mr Green wrote:

Thought you Arch gurus ran reiser4 or stuff like that lol

use ext3. no 'guru' would use reiser4.

Mr Green · 2006-06-29 11:16:16

yeah thats cool ;-)

Mr Green · 2006-07-02 14:40:05

ok

[ ~ ] > df -hT
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3     ext3     19G  4.2G   14G  24% /
none         tmpfs    506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs        tmpfs    506M  4.0K  506M   1% /tmp
/dev/sda1     ext3     92M   13M   75M  15% /boot
/dev/sda2     ext3    4.7G  3.1G  1.5G  68% /var
/dev/sda4     ext3    206G  7.9G  188G   5% /home
[ ~ ] >

elasticdog · 2006-07-02 20:26:13

Mr Green wrote:

ok

[ ~ ] > df -hT
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3     ext3     19G  4.2G   14G  24% /
none         tmpfs    506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs        tmpfs    506M  4.0K  506M   1% /tmp
/dev/sda1     ext3     92M   13M   75M  15% /boot
/dev/sda2     ext3    4.7G  3.1G  1.5G  68% /var
/dev/sda4     ext3    206G  7.9G  188G   5% /home
[ ~ ] >

Looks good to me matey...enjoy yer space!

Mr Green · 2006-07-03 05:37:42

Thanks man 8)

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