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xad21

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Registered: 2020-04-18

Posts: 4

advice for partitioning on a running system

Hello, i was not sure how to split my hard-drive after my installation and i ended up with this:

Device          Start       End   Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1        2048 209717247 209715200  100G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda2   209717248 218105855   8388608    4G Linux swap
/dev/sda128 468869120 468877278      8159    4M BIOS boot

between sda2 and sda128 are around ~150gb disk space left. I'm thinking about two options:
1.  removing /sda2 swap and resizing sda1 with the free sectors and adding the swap at the end
2. creating a new partition between swap and boot (maybe creating a new home)

Any other recommendations and in general which options would make more sense?

JimDeadlock

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From: London

Registered: 2019-03-20

Posts: 83

Re: advice for partitioning on a running system

You should have separate / and /home partitions, so what I would do is shrink sda1 to 20Gb and keep it for / then use the large empty space for a new /home partition.

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,648

Re: advice for partitioning on a running system

You should have separate / and /home partitions

Why? I never use a separate home and root partition.

xad21, either option you mention will work fine. You may not even need a swap partition (many people don't use them, or use a swap file instead).

But what is causing you to need more space for root? 100G seems like plenty.

xad21

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Registered: 2020-04-18

Posts: 4

Re: advice for partitioning on a running system

But what is causing you to need more space for root? 100G seems like plenty.

No particular reason, i am just not sure what else to do with the free disk space. I saw so many different partitioning scheme and got confused a bit which might be the most suitable.
What are the advantages in having a designated /var and /home? Or in general how would a more sophisticated partition scheme look like and what are its field of application?

Trilby

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Re: advice for partitioning on a running system

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … ion_scheme

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adamc83

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Registered: 2008-06-01

Posts: 42

Re: advice for partitioning on a running system

I have a similar sized drive and gave 64G to /, 256M to /boot, and the rest to /home. Having just / and /boot is a reasonable option too, though I do them differently so I can use ext4 on / and btrfs on /home. In my opinion 20G is far too little for /, especially if you have something that is going to take up a lot of space in /var, like Docker, web sites, or databases.