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pogeymanz

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What is your partition scheme?

Just for curiosity's sake. I'm installing Arch on a 250GB HD soon and I want to see what other people do. Here is what I plan on doing:

/var       512MB       ReiserFS
swap     3GB
/home     ~230GB     Ext3
/            15-20GB      JFS
/boot      50MB          Ext2 or 3

I heard that making /var first and reiser will make pacman go super-fast. I usually use some combo of reiser and ext3 anyway. I've never tried JFS, so I make "/" large because apparently you don't resize JFS.

I know that I am being a ricer, but I don't care.:cool:

Barrucadu

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

/boot 100MB Ext2
swap 500MB
/ 25GB Ext3
/home 30GB Ext3
/mnt/media 160GB JFS

You're partially right about JFS, you can't shrink it but you can grow it.

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ornitorrincos

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From: Bilbao, spain

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

/boot 1GB ext3
/ XFS 26,5 GB
swap 400MB
/home XFS 24GB
~/VM jfs 14GB
~/GAM jfs 68GB

it got complicated over time(note the VM and GAM folders)

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ozar

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Registered: 2005-02-18

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

I generally keep things quite simple and go with something like the following:

/ (about 6 to 12 GB, ext3)
swap 512 MB, swap
/home (about 6 to 12 GB, ext3)

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pogeymanz

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

/boot 100MB Ext2
swap 500MB
/ 25GB Ext3
/home 30GB Ext3
/mnt/media 160GB JFS

You're partially right about JFS, you can't shrink it but you can grow it.

Ah, good to know. Thanks. Now I'm not so worried about picking a good size.

Does anybody have /var as it's own partition? I don't know how big it should be.

Myav

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Registered: 2007-05-07

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

I have extremely simple scheme of partitioning. There are only two partitions located on the same 250GB HDD:

/ - 20GB ext3
/home - 230GB ext3

Misfit138

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Registered: 2006-11-27

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

Does anybody have /var as it's own partition? I don't know how big it should be.

Just  keep in mind that the pacman cache resides there, so make it large enough to accommodate.

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ghostHack

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From: Bristol UK

Registered: 2008-02-29

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

I have:
/ - 12 GB ext3
/var - 4.2 GB reiser3
/home - 161 GB ext3

The size of /var you need depends on whether you will be keeping the pacman cache of downloaded packages (which resides in /var/cache/pacman/pkg), some people never delete any old packages.  I do clean mine out occasionally but having 4GB available means it doesn't matter much if I don't.

SiD

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Registered: 2006-09-21

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

/dev/sda1   *           1         510     4096543+   b  W95 FAT32              ---> WinXP system
/dev/sda2             511        1727     9775552+   7  HPFS/NTFS              ---> WinXP data
/dev/sda3            1728        2944     9775552+  83  Linux                  ---> for test installations
/dev/sda4            2945        7296    34957440    5  Extended                             
/dev/sda5            2945        3006      497983+  82  Linux Swap / Solaris   ---> swap
/dev/sda6            3007        3068      497983+  83  Linux                  ---> /tmp
/dev/sda7            3069        3079       88326   83  Linux                  ---> /boot
/dev/sda8            3080        3809     5863693+  83  Linux                  ---> /
/dev/sda9            3810        7296    28009296   83  Linux                  ---> /home

Skulk

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From: Clermont-Fd, France

Registered: 2005-07-23

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

i use :
/ (159GB)
swap (1GB)
simple, isn't it ?

dyscoria

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

About to change my partition scheme to use ReiserFS (mainly for pacman performance) instead of ext3.
Less fragmentation apparently aswell, especially without the 'notail' mount option.

Might use XFS for my data storage partition (FLAC's + MKV's), but leaning more towards ReiserFS as some article goes on about how XFS is bad for data loss or something (think it's linked to on the wikipedia article).

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catwell

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

/ - ~20 GB, less if small HD
swap - 1 GB
/dcs - the rest

I prefer putting all my documents in a separate partition than using home, because if I reinstall I won't want to keep my old dotfiles anyway. Also, that's for my laptops, with a single user. Otherwise, I'd make a documents partition for each user.

As for the filesystem, I use Reiser3 for now, but I wouldn't mind switching for something faster at boot. I'm looking forward to btrfs.

Misfit138

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Registered: 2006-11-27

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

As for the filesystem, I use Reiser3 for now, but I wouldn't mind switching for something faster at boot. I'm looking forward to btrfs.

No plans for online defragmentation?! When the **** are these FS developers going to wake up?
I mean seriously, ext4 is the only FS with plans for an online defrag tool at this time? Why did JFS devs abandon the porting of the OS/2 defrag tools?
/me sulks in disappointment

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elide

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

hda1   32M   /boot noauto,nodev,noexec,nosuid
hda2    1G   swap
hda3   10G   EXT
+hda5 128M   /     ro,noatime
+hda6   3G   /var  rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime
+hda7   3G   /usr  ro,nodev,noatime
+hda8 rest   /home rw,nodev,nosuid,relatime
hda4  rest   /data rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec,noatime

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fukawi2

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

Desktop (4gb Swap):

/dev/sdb3             146G  3.7G  142G   3% /
/dev/sda1             187G  100G   88G  54% /home
/dev/sdb2             122M   14M  102M  12% /boot

Home Server (128mb Swap):

/dev/sda6             242M  111M  132M  46% /
/dev/sda2             172M   24M  148M  14% /home
/dev/sda3              16M  8.6M  5.9M  60% /boot
/dev/sda5             727M  636M   91M  88% /usr
/dev/sda8             125M  320K  124M   1% /tmp
/dev/sda7             593M  374M  219M  64% /var

/usr is mounted read-only. /tmp is nosuid.

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pogeymanz

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

hda1   32M   /boot noauto,nodev,noexec,nosuid
hda2    1G   swap
hda3   10G   EXT
+hda5 128M   /     ro,noatime
+hda6   3G   /var  rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime
+hda7   3G   /usr  ro,nodev,noatime
+hda8 rest   /home rw,nodev,nosuid,relatime
hda4  rest   /data rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec,noatime

could you point me to a source that would explain all those boot parameters?

LTSmash

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

/boot 100MB Ext2
swap 500MB
/ 25GB Ext3
/home 30GB Ext3
/mnt/media 160GB JFS

You're partially right about JFS, you can't shrink it but you can grow it.

Ah, good to know. Thanks. Now I'm not so worried about picking a good size.

Does anybody have /var as it's own partition? I don't know how big it should be.

I don't have  /var as a partition but I do have the /var/cache/pacman dir as one, however I'm using ext3 and not JFS.

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lldmer

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From: Amsterdam

Registered: 2008-05-17

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

Raid+LVM with separate /boot /usr and /home partitions:

/dev/md1                19G     /
/dev/md0                114M    /boot
/dev/mapper/array-usr   60G     /usr
/dev/mapper/array-home 378G     /home

usr and home reside on /dev/md2, swap (2G) on /dev/md3

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chilebiker

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             9.3G  4.6G  4.3G  52% /           # ext3, arch
/dev/sda3             9.3G  2.2G  6.7G  25% /mnt/sda3   # ext3, testpartition
/dev/loop/0            42G  8.8G   31G  23% /mnt/data   # ext3, data (TC-container)
/dev/sda6             9.2G  2.4G  6.4G  28% /home
/dev/loop/1            20G  4.4G   15G  23% /mnt/sdb1   # ext3, backup data (TC-container)
/dev/sdb2              20G   15G  4.6G  76% /mnt/sdb2   # ext3, backup /
/dev/sdb3              20G  1.3G   18G   7% /mnt/sdb3   # ext3, backup from other laptop
/dev/sdb5             120G   64G   52G  56% /mnt/sdb5   # ext3, MP3
/dev/sdb6             4.9G  4.7G  263M  95% /mnt/sdb6   # fat32, some old win data

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OzMick

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

hda1   32M   /boot noauto,nodev,noexec,nosuid
hda2    1G   swap
hda3   10G   EXT
+hda5 128M   /     ro,noatime
+hda6   3G   /var  rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime
+hda7   3G   /usr  ro,nodev,noatime
+hda8 rest   /home rw,nodev,nosuid,relatime
hda4  rest   /data rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec,noatime

could you point me to a source that would explain all those boot parameters?

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        7650    61440000    7  HPFS/NTFS <--- Windows Partition
/dev/sda2            7650       14945    58597087+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3           14945       15431     3903795   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4           15432       38913   188619165    7  HPFS/NTFS <--- Common downloads & files partition holding pictures, mp3, torrents

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Issh

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

/dev/md3                /       reiserfs         #  20000mb ~18gb
/dev/md2                swap    swap         #  2048 mb
/dev/md1                /boot   ext2           # 100 mb
/dev/md4                /srv    reiserfs       # 130 gb

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

/dev/sdc3              19G  4.0G   14G  23% /
none                 1014M     0 1014M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdc1              92M   14M   73M  16% /boot
/dev/sdc4             213G  191G   22G  90% /home
/dev/sde1             466G  460G  5.8G  99% /home/Media-1
/dev/sdf1             466G  281G  186G  61% /home/Media-2

In adition there are 2 more 250gb discs. One with windows, and one that are temporary in another box. Transfering 200GB over an adsl with 70kb/s upload isn't fun

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SilentMan

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Re: What is your partition scheme?

none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0
/dev/sda2              /             ext3      defaults            0      1 
/dev/sda9              none          swap      defaults             0      0
/dev/sda7              /home         ext3      defaults,rw           0       1
/dev/sda4              /var         reiser4      defaults,rw           0       1
/dev/sda5       /home/sm/Games  ntfs-3g locale=ru_RU.utf-8,rw,uid=1000,force  0       0
/dev/sda8       /home/sm/Media  ntfs-3g locale=ru_RU.utf-8,rw,uid=1000,force  0       0
/dev/sda1       /home/sm/Sys    ntfs-3g locale=ru_RU.utf-8,rw,uid=1000,force  0       0
/dev/sda6       /home/sm/Video  ntfs-3g locale=ru_RU.utf-8,rw,uid=1000,force  0       0

/dev/sda2              15G  5,6G  9,2G  38% /
none                  506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda7              40G   32G  5,7G  85% /home
/dev/sda4             4,3G  2,8G  1,6G  64% /var
/dev/sda5              37G   31G  6,3G  83% /home/sm/Games
/dev/sda8              72G   59G   13G  83% /home/sm/Media
/dev/sda1              20G   17G  3,1G  85% /home/sm/Sys
/dev/sda6              45G   35G   11G  77% /home/sm/Video

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rocktorrentz

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Registered: 2007-08-05

Posts: 141

Re: What is your partition scheme?

sda1 (40GB) - Windows XP
sdb1 (40GB) - Windows Vista
sda2 (1GB) + sdb2 (1GB) - Swap
sda3 (50MB) - Boot
sda5 (8GB) + sdb3 (8GB) RAID0 (16GB) - Root
sda6 (200GB) + sdb4 (400GB) LVM (600GB) - Home

Overcomplicated? Naaa.