Can you post your partitioning set up, just for reference. Please?

Boris Bolgradov · 2009-10-03 09:41:32

Model: ATA ST3320613AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End    Size    Type     File system  Flags
 1      32.3kB  526MB  526MB   primary  linux-swap        
 2      526MB   105GB  105GB   primary  ntfs         boot 
 3      105GB   306GB  200GB   primary  ext2              
 4      306GB   320GB  14.4GB  primary  ext3

sda1 - swap
sda2 - windows
sda3 - /home
sda4 - /

Last edited by Boris Bolgradov (2009-10-03 09:41:52)

zen3 · 2009-10-03 09:47:22

Misfit138 wrote:

zen3 wrote:
JFS?
I think JFS is only usable if you use many ports/small tarballs and small sized files, in general.
Nope. JFS is an excellent filesystem with great all-around performance..you may be confusing it with ReiserFSv3..

Oh, right.
Thanks for the clarification.

rwd · 2009-10-03 10:27:01

BurningFury wrote:

So I decided on how to partition my drive.
Is as it follows:
4 Partitions:
1 = 200GB for Linux of course.
(Out of those 200GB =
15GB for /
150MB for /boot
2GB for swap *even though it's not needed since I have 8GB of Ram, but just to be safe*
Rest for /home)
2 = 2 300GB Partitions for storing files and the likes.
3= 1 200GB Partition for back ups and disk cloning.
That would do I think ^^

Storing backups on the same system is a bit risky if those are your only backups.

pharcyde · 2009-10-03 10:33:34

I'm not on my computer so the sizes are just based on conjectures.

/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 75mb
/dev/sda2 swap 512mb
/dev/sda3 / jfs 2gb
/dev/sda4 /home jfs 1.5gb

A Future Pilot · 2009-10-03 14:14:37

Are you using LVM? If you are, make sure that the /boot partition is seperate from the LVM partition. (I just made that mistake yesterday...) :-)

Here's mine now: (I got fed up with LVM, and just decided to stick to what I know. When I install Arch on my computer I'll use LVM, but this was my mom's)

It's a 180GB HD, and I'm gonna get another for data, although I know I'll never use it :-)

/dev/sda1 30GB Windows
/dev/sda2 45GB /
/dev/sda3 1024MB swap
/dev/sda4 The Rest /home

all but Windows ext3, Windows being NTFS.

jwcxz · 2009-10-03 15:04:54

My RAID array consists of 3 640GB drives. Then, I have 3 more 160GB drives, used for various things. At the rate I'm going, I won't need any more storage space for quite a while.

~ $ df -hTx tmpfs
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0      ext4    138G  9.6G  122G   8% /
/dev/md1      ext3     92M   17M   70M  20% /boot
/dev/md2  reiserfs     24G  7.2G   17G  31% /var
/dev/md3       xfs    1.1T  121G  909G  12% /home
/dev/sdd1  fuseblk    150G   27G  123G  18% /mnt/win7
/dev/sde1      xfs    149G   62G   88G  42% /mnt/a
/dev/sdf1 reiserfs    150G   33M  149G   1% /mnt/b

ozar · 2009-10-03 15:25:02

Can you post your partitioning set up, just for reference. Please?

I generally maintain a rather simple partitioning scheme that resembles something close to the following:

/ (about 10 to 20 GB, ext3)
swap (about 1 or 2 GB, swap)
/home (about 10 to 20 GB, ext3)

It works well enough for me.

jinks · 2009-10-03 15:48:14

OK, this is gonna take a while...

Harddisks:

/dev/sda - 160GB
/dev/sdb - 160GB
/dev/sdc - 160GB
/dev/sdd - 250GB

Partitions:

sda:
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1           6       48163+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda2               7         103      779152+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3             104       19457   155461005    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5             104        9073    72051493+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda6            9074       19457    83409448+  fd  Linux raid autodetect

sdb:
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1           6       48163+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb2               7         103      779152+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3             104       19457   155461005    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5             104        9073    72051493+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb6            9074       19457    83409448+  fd  Linux raid autodetect

sdc:
N/A

sdd:
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdd1   *           1        2550    20482843+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdd2            2551       30401   223713157+   7  HPFS/NTFS

RAIDs:

md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]
      48064 blocks [2/2] [UU]                  (/boot)

md1 : active raid1 sdb5[0] sda5[1]
      72051392 blocks [2/2] [UU]            (LVM system,/home)

md2 : active raid0 sda6[0] sdb6[1]
      166818688 blocks 64k chunks        (Data dump)

LVM:

# vgs
  hydra     1   7   0 wz--n-  68.71G 6.71G
  storage   2   1   0 wz--n- 308.14G    0 

# pvs
  PV         VG      Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
  /dev/md1   hydra   lvm2 a-    68.71G 6.71G
  /dev/md2   storage lvm2 a-   159.09G    0 
  /dev/sdc   storage lvm2 a-   149.05G    0 

# lvs
  LV    VG      Attr   LSize   Origin Snap%  Move Log Copy%  Convert
  arch  hydra   -wi-ao  15.00G                                      
  home  hydra   -wi-ao  20.00G                                      
  repos hydra   -wi-a-   1.00G                                      
  root  hydra   -wi-a-   3.00G                                      
  tmp   hydra   -wi-ao   3.00G                                      
  usr   hydra   -wi-a-  10.00G                                      
  var   hydra   -wi-a-  10.00G                                      
  data  storage -wi-ao 308.14G

(repos, root, usr, var are leftovers from my old gentoo system, I only use arch, home and tmp for now. But being LVM I can always rearrange as I see fit.)

Explanation:
sda and sdb are my two system harddisks. There are two raid1 partitions (/boot and LVM-PV) and one swap partition per hdd. Those together make up one half of each hdd (aka 80 GB).
The second half of each disk is a single partition taking up the other 80G, those two are then combined in a raid0 (160G).
Intel calls this configuration Matrix-RAID and offers it in it's Windows ICH drivers. It combines nicely the security of raid1 for important data (system/home) and the speed and capacity of raid0. I only "loose" 1/4 of the capacity of the two disks this way.
the 160G raid0 is then combined with another 160G disk (sdc, raw, no partitions) in the "storage" LV, giving me 300G of "dump"-quality storage for all the sh*t i either don't care about, or have backups of.
sdd is a Windows-only disk with 2 partitions filled with (sdd1) the system and useful programs and (sdd2) mostly games i don't play anyways

Filesystems are mostly ext3 for the old gentoo stuff, ext4 for arch/home and xfs for the data dump.

What you cannot see here is, that most of the gentoo partitions are pretty full (gentoo is using approx. 18GB overall), while arch chugs along nicely with 7/15G used and no noticeable loss in functionality.

skottish · 2009-10-03 16:25:10

The partitioning looks conspicuously like the Arch defaults:

 Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3     ext4    7.3G  4.1G  2.9G  59% /
/dev/sda1     ext2     38M   12M   25M  33% /boot
/dev/sda4     ext4    451G   69G  360G  16% /home
/dev/sdb1     ext4    459G   69G  367G  16% /backup

none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 1
/dev/sda4 /home ext4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 1
/dev/sdb1 /backup ext4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 1

lz3060 · 2009-10-05 22:10:55

/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 1GB
/dev/sda2 swap swap 2GB
/dev/sda3 / ext4 the rest

I find complicated partitioning unnecessary for a workstation (laptop/desktop). Servers are a different matter.

NeoXP · 2009-10-06 20:47:39

sda1 ext2 228M /boot
sda2 swap 2048M
sda3 reiserfs 9,4G /var
sda4 extended 138G
sda5 ext4 24G /
sda6 ext4 114G /home

azleifel · 2009-10-06 21:03:01

Since the unplanned reinstallation that I had to do last weekend:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             7.5G  3.9G  3.2G  56% /         [Arch]
/dev/sda2              31G  3.9G   25G  14% /         [Ubuntu]
/dev/sda5              31G  4.2G   25G  15% /home
/dev/sda6              31G  177M   29G   1% /tmp
/dev/sda7              31G  3.3G   26G  12% /var
/dev/sda8             445G   91G  331G  22% /mnt/free

brando56894 · 2009-10-06 21:54:09

Misfit138 wrote:

zen3 wrote:
JFS?
I think JFS is only usable if you use many ports/small tarballs and small sized files, in general.
Nope. JFS is an excellent filesystem with great all-around performance..you may be confusing it with ReiserFSv3..

yep, I used JFS as my main FS for awhile but once ext4 was stable enough to use and had mainstream support in the kernel I switched over to it and the speed increase was definitely noticeable

Inxsible · 2009-10-06 22:02:31

╔═[22:40]═[inxs @ arch]
╚═══===═══[~]>> fdisk
Password: 

Disk /dev/sda: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3648 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000080

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1           8       64228+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2               9         726     5767335    5  Extended
/dev/sda3             727        1640     7341705   83  Linux
/dev/sda4            1641        3648    16129260   83  Linux
/dev/sda5               9          73      522081   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6              74         726     5245191   83  Linux

╔═[18:03]═[inxs @ arch]
╚═══===═══[~]>> df
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3     ext3    7.0G  1.7G  5.0G  25% /
none         tmpfs    125M  100K  125M   1% /dev
none         tmpfs    125M     0  125M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda4     ext4     16G  920M   14G   7% /home
/dev/sda6 reiserfs    5.1G  655M  4.4G  13% /var
/dev/sda1     ext2     61M   12M   47M  20% /boot

╔═[18:04]═[inxs @ arch]
╚═══===═══[~]>>

Yes my hard drive is only 30 GB. My machine is a 10 yr old laptop -- which would probably be heavier than the smallest desktop available in the market today. ;-) Oh and 256MB RAM. Hell yeah !!

hmmmm.. I just noticed that my root is still ext3. I guess I just never got around to changing it over to ext4 .... I guess I will have to re-install Arch for that or it won't use the extents etc for the old data...Maybe when Arch crashes I will re-install (Good luck on that one !) I still haven't re-installed Arch since I first installed it.

Last edited by Inxsible (2009-10-06 22:09:56)

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