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coirius

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Registered: 2011-02-24

Posts: 5

Some questions about installation

Hi! First of all, I'm not a beginner in Linux, I use Linux on my computers since 2008. But, I want to re-install my current ArchLinux installation and have some "noob" questions:
1) Whats better: LVM or partitions?
2) How big of / (root) partition size should I have?
3) Please, recommend me a partitionng scheme.

Thx a lot.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Some questions about installation

As we have no idea what are you going to do with your system, all of your questions can be answered only: "it depends".

coirius

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Registered: 2011-02-24

Posts: 5

Re: Some questions about installation

As we have no idea what are you going to do with your system, all of your questions can be answered only: "it depends".

I use OpenBox as standalone WM, Firefox, Skype and some office tools (such as Libreoffice) and terminal with vim for programming, ncmpc, mplayer and rtorrent, irssi + bitlbee for as instant messager, and sometimes ftp, http and ssh server ... Thats all...

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Some questions about installation

1. LVM gives you flexibility,(but do you need it?) at the cost of added complexity.
2. & 3. If you have a 120GB disk or bigger, 20 GB for / and /home on a separate partition.

mips1

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Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 99

Re: Some questions about installation

I use OpenBox as standalone WM, Firefox, Skype and some office tools (such as Libreoffice) and terminal with vim for programming, ncmpc, mplayer and rtorrent, irssi + bitlbee for as instant messager, and sometimes ftp, http and ssh server ... Thats all...

I have a 7.7GB / partition of which I'm using about 3.8GB and that includes my pacman cache. I have more apps installed than in your list so in my book a 10GB / should be more than enough.

I also have a Ubuntu install full of crap and that's only using 8GB.