Partition scheme for my laptop

Kindatired · 2010-10-09 04:57:53

I have a 233 gig hard drive so I was thinking of something like this...

Boot - 200 megs - ext2
/ - 15 gigs - ext4
/home - 30 gigs -ext4
/swap - 2 gigs -swap
/var - 10 gigs -ReiserFS
/tmp - 5 gigs -ReiserFS or ext4 (not sure)
/windows - 20 gigs -NTFS (need some windows programs to work that wine doesn't like)
/storage -150 gigs - ext4 (Movies, music, ect.)

Does that look about right, or am I missing something?

Thanks.

tomk · 2010-10-09 08:33:39

Sure, it looks fine. You probably won't even need 50M for /boot, nevermind 200M, but other than that go ahead.

arch0r · 2010-10-09 11:30:27

i'm using 3 partitions, the first one for windows, the second one is a lvm volume where all my linux "partitions" reside (boot 100mb, swap 2Gb, root 10GB, var 5GB and tmp 5GB, home 10GB) and the third one is for all my data.

i would personally go with one filesystem (in this case ext4 for all my partitions, or btrfs and ext4 for boot)

karol · 2010-10-09 11:44:49

Will Windows be happy with only 20 GB? ;P Are you using WinXP or Win7?

arch0r · 2010-10-09 12:42:28

windows xp will be happy with 20gb as long as you don't run any software which needs lots of free space but my windows7 installation with a really basic setup and starcraft 2 (12GB) has almost 30GB

Inxsible · 2010-10-09 18:16:07

you don't need a separate boot partition unless you plan to use it for multiple installations. I just keep my /boot under root as the Arch grub has been patched to boot from ext4. If you plan to use grub2, then it has support for ext4 as well.

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Partition scheme for my laptop

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