What is your partition scheme?

Phrodo_00 · 2008-05-30 21:03:09

/media/windows - ntfs 15gb
/media/media - ntfs 120gb
/boot - ext3 128mb
/ reiserfs 12gb
swap - swap 2gb (yay hibernation)

Mi laptop is pretty much the same, only /media/media is only 80gb

kezar · 2008-05-30 23:17:03

/dev/sda1 swap
/dev/sda2 /
/dev/sda3 /home
/dev/sda5 /tmp
/dev/sda6 /backup
/dev/sda7 /development
/dev/sda8 /emul
/dev/sda9 /images
/dev/sda10 /net
/dev/sda11 /music
/dev/sda12 /video

violagirl23 · 2008-05-31 03:58:47

O_O I wonder if I should feel guilty by the simplicty of my setup.
sda1 some vista boot thing i dunno
sda2 vista - ntfs
sda3 arch - ext3
sda5 swap - swap
That's about it.
XD
I just stuck with what I knew.

Stythys · 2008-05-31 04:07:44

I just have a separate /boot and /home. the rest is standard

shazeal · 2008-05-31 04:42:50

Using raid1 for system 160g drives
md0 (xfs) = /boot
md1 (xfs) = /
md2 (xfs) = /home/x/downloads

250g drive for other stuff
sdc1 = swap
sdc2 (ext3) = full of junk/backups

Didnt feel the need to go crazy, when I get some new drives and do it again I will probably make seperate /opt and /var partitions to cut down on any fragmentation, but meh, not a big deal.

Gullible Jones · 2008-05-31 04:57:17

/dev/sda1 - root, 7 GB, ext3
/dev/sda2 - swap, 1 GB
/dev/sda3 - /var, 2 GB, ext3
/dev/sda4 - /home, 70 GB, ext3

It works... I just have no idea what to do with 70 GB of free space.

Allan · 2008-05-31 05:21:50

I use the same partitioning scheme on all my computers. Simple, but does the job.

/dev/sda1 - /boot, 128M, ext2
/dev/sda2 - /, 10Gb, ext3
/dev/sda3 - swap, 4Gb
/dev/sda4 - /home, the rest (~100Gb on laptop, no idea on desktop...), ext3

ido · 2008-05-31 11:15:05

I've been paging through this thread and I see that some have a /boot partition, but others don't. Out of interest and perhaps self-improvement I would like to know why you have it or for what cause.

dyscoria · 2008-05-31 11:21:00

ido wrote:

I've been paging through this thread and I see that some have a /boot partition, but others don't. Out of interest and perhaps self-improvement I would like to know why you have it or for what cause.

It used to be very recommended IIRC but not really required anymore, but it can be a security benefit. It'll be mounted on boot, then unmounted after its finished (once you reach your login manager) so that there is less chance of data corruption. It can't get filled up if your filesystem gets filled up.
It's generally done on an ext2 filesystem as it's the fastest to mount and you don't really need journalling on such a small partition that is mounted only at boot.

Allan · 2008-05-31 11:31:23

dyscoria wrote:

It'll be mounted on boot, then unmounted after its finished (once you reach your login manager)

Really? I hadn't heard of people unmounting boot before.

I find it a lot easier to set up dual boot systems with a /boot partition. Well, at least it was historically. Haven't tried setting one up without a boot partition in quite a while.

bangkok_manouel · 2008-05-31 11:37:57

Filesystem 1K-blocks
/dev/sda1 93307 /boot ext2
/dev/sda5 4152636 /var reiserFS
/dev/sda6 7692876 / ext3
/dev/sda7 86511612 /home ext3

dyscoria · 2008-05-31 11:41:39

Allan wrote:

dyscoria wrote:
It'll be mounted on boot, then unmounted after its finished (once you reach your login manager)
Really? I hadn't heard of people unmounting boot before.
I find it a lot easier to set up dual boot systems with a /boot partition. Well, at least it was historically. Haven't tried setting one up without a boot partition in quite a while.

I think back when I had a separate boot, I had the readonly and 'noauto' option in fstab. That made sure it was used only at boot time, though i had to remember to mount it manually before upgrading the kernel. I've since got tired of such a task

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fukawi2 · 2008-06-02 04:42:40

ido wrote:

I've been paging through this thread and I see that some have a /boot partition, but others don't. Out of interest and perhaps self-improvement I would like to know why you have it or for what cause.

As others said, I do it out of habit on my servers:
1) If / gets filled for whatever reason, I can still boot the system (or at least, stand more chance of booting it). Same reason I mount /var and /tmp to their own partitions so they can't stuff up / if they get filled up.
2) I can mount it read-only for security.
3) If / gets damaged and/or corrupted, /boot won't be affected.
4) It lets me use a tried and tested FS like ext2/3 which letting me use XFS / JFS / ReiserFS on the rest of the system.

Although I've never unmounted it after boot. I can see the argument for it though.

Last edited by fukawi2 (2008-06-02 04:43:17)

Phrodo_00 · 2008-06-04 04:41:18

ido wrote:

I've been paging through this thread and I see that some have a /boot partition, but others don't. Out of interest and perhaps self-improvement I would like to know why you have it or for what cause.

for me it's that reiserfs crawls when it hasn't been umounted properly, wich is what happens during hibernation, so without /boot being ext2/3 grub takes around 30secs to load stage1.5, and something arounf that fro loading the kernel.

hussam · 2008-06-04 06:21:32

From output of mount:
/dev/mapper/root on / type ext3
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3
/dev/mapper/home on /home type ext3
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc

+ the gvfs fuse mount.

hrist · 2008-06-04 09:31:07

Partition table:

Name | Flags | Part Type | FS Type    | Size (MB)
sda1 |  Boot |  Primary  | Linux ext2 | 197.41
sda5 |   NC  |  Logical  | Linux LVM  | 109906.20
sda6 |       |  Logical  | Linux LVM  | 50001.48
sda7 |       |  Logical  | Linux LVM  | 89951.67

Logical volumes

LV       VG   Attr   LSize  Origin Snap%  Move Log Copy%  Convert
home     lvm  -wi-ao 50.00G                                      
root     lvm  -wi-ao 20.00G                                      
stargate lvm  -wi-ao 50.00G                                      
var      lvm  -wi-ao  5.00G

I have 3 partitions in one LVM because sda6 was a /home from a installation before and I wanted to keep it, so I created a lvm with sda5 and sda7 and then copied /home into the lvm and added sda6 to the lvm :-)

D'oh forgot the how I use the lvm :-)

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/root       20G  3.0G   18G  15% /
none                  1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/home       50G   31G   20G  61% /home
/dev/mapper/var       5.0G  459M  4.6G   9% /var
/dev/mapper/lvm-stargate
                       50G   26G   25G  51% /home/hrist/stargate
/dev/sda1             183M   13M  161M   8% /boot

/var is xfs, /boot ext2 the rest is jfs

Last edited by hrist (2008-06-04 11:22:51)

phildg · 2008-06-04 11:09:46

Keep my partitions as simple as possible, things are complicated enough without deliberately making things more complicated.

Standard Desktop

/dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev type ramfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,devgid=101,devmode=0664)
newcastle:/home on /home type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.10.2)
newcastle:/disk1 on /disk1 type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.10.2)
newcastle:/disk2 on /disk2 type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.10.2)
newcastle:/disk3 on /mm/1 type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.10.2)
newcastle:/disk4 on /mm/2 type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.10.2)
newcastle:/disk5 on /mm/3 type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.10.2)
newcastle:/snapshots on /snapshots type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.10.2)

Server

/dev/mirror/gm0s1a on / (ufs, local)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/mirror/gm0s1d on /tmp (ufs, local, noexec, nosuid, soft-updates, acls)
/dev/mirror/gm0s1e on /var (ufs, local, noatime, soft-updates)
/dev/mirror/gm0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, noatime, soft-updates)
/dev/mirror/gm0s1g on /home (ufs, NFS exported, local, noatime, nosuid, with quotas, soft-updates, acls)
/dev/ad8s1d on /disk1 (ufs, NFS exported, local, noatime, noexec, nosuid, soft-updates, acls)
/dev/ad0s1d on /disk2 (ufs, NFS exported, local, noatime, noexec, nosuid, soft-updates, acls)
/dev/ad10s1d on /disk3 (ufs, NFS exported, local, noatime, noexec, nosuid, soft-updates, acls)
/dev/ad12s1d on /disk4 (ufs, NFS exported, local, noatime, noexec, nosuid, soft-updates, acls)
/dev/ad14s1d on /disk5 (ufs, NFS exported, local, noatime, noexec, nosuid, soft-updates, acls)
/disk1/backup/snapshots on /snapshots (nullfs, NFS exported, local, noatime, noexec, nosuid, read-only, acls)
devfs on /var/named/dev (devfs, local)
/dev/md0a on /usr/jail/www (ufs, local)
devfs on /usr/jail/www/dev (devfs, local)
/home/www on /usr/jail/www/home (nullfs, local)

The laptop (/ is encrypted, that's the reason for the separate /boot partition

/dev/mapper/root on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev type ramfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,devgid=101,devmode=0664)

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