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I've acquired an old Del, that has had some hardware changed, out to install ArchLinux on. It has two hard drives and I'm not sure how would be the best way to partition them. Here are the system specs:
CPU: Pentium 4 1.7 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
hda: 80 GB
hdb: 20 GB
Video: Nvidia GeForce4 Ti4200 with AGP8x and 128MB dedicated RAM
Sound Card: Creative SB Live! Value
Optical Drive: 16x CD-ROM
My plan is to get Arch running on this while I save for a newer computer. I have to replace the family computer first however.
I'll be the only user at the moment, but I may create a login for my daughter if she shows interest.
I was thinking of creating the following partitions, but I'm not sure how to best put them on the two drives:
/boot
/
/home
/var
I'm open to any and all suggestions.
Thanks,
Kent
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I use separate partitions for exactly those things; they're also split over two drives. However, I use LVM to treat the two disks as one. Whether or not you do that, I'd recommend about 100MiB for /boot, 5GiB for /var, 15GiB for /, and the rest for /home. That works for me, anyway.
P.S. I'm sure there's other threads on here about recommended partition layouts.
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Guess we are all different ...
Me? I would have swapped the disks and used the 20Gb for '/' and the 80 gb for /home
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What ever partition scheme you choose, (and the auto/default install scheme of /boot /home /swap / is a fine choice also.) Make SURE you read HERE. Also read THIS part of the wiki
PLEASE read and try to FIX/FILE BUGS instead of assuming other have/will.
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I like to keep mine simple:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 105GB 105GB primary ntfs boot
2 105GB 171GB 66.2GB primary ext4
this way I don't have to resize partitions later. There can be advantages to using separate partitions but I find that it is seldom necessary. If I discover I'm running low on memory, then I create a swapfile later.
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Guess we are all different ...
Me? I would have swapped the disks and used the 20Gb for '/' and the 80 gb for /home
I would do the same, maybe split the / , as
/ -> 9.9Gb
/var -> 10Gb
/boot -> 100Mb
/home-> 80Gb
swap -> as needed
/tmp and /var/tmp -> tmpfs
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Actually, I can't understand why people are so hung up about /home. To me, /home is a pain in the proverbial posterior because of all the dot-files/-directories and all the config files - being a distrohopper I find that I can't usually carry all the dot-files around - even .bashrc can be questionable at times ...
So what do I do instead?
I do not use a seperate partition for /home, but instead I have a large 'work'-partition that I mount as /disk or /usrdisk or something similar. Then each user can have his (or hers) own files in eg. /disk/$USERNAME
It seems to be popular these days to have Documents, Pictures etc in the home directory ... well, by all means do, but make them a link to /disk/$USERNAME/Documents etc
This way - whenever you want to change the distro - you still carry all your own files 'sans' all the dot-stuff.
I'm not saying this is the way it should be done, but I have used this method for years (and through more distros than I care to count) and suits _me_ to a T - ymmv
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I do save a copy of my .bashrc in /disk/$USERNAME just to have a template for the next distro I'll be contemplating.
The same goes for some important system configs (/etc/vsftpd.conf, /etc/ssh/ssh_config, /etc/samba/smb.conf etc etc)
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