-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/2014 06:14 AM, B. M. wrote: > Hi all, > > While I'm waiting for the components of my new machine (testing/jessie) > I'm thinking about the optimal partitioning scheme which should last for the > next 10 years :-) > > The system looks like: > Haswell 3.4 GHz > 8 GB RAM (later upgradeable up to 32 GB) > 250 GB SSD > 2 TB HDD > > What do you think about the following: > > === SSD: === > /boot unencrypted, 300 MB > / ext4, encrypted, 25-30 GB > /home ext4, encrypted, keyfile, 220-225 GB > User data for two users
I would have one / ext4 partition for everything. (You may want a separate /home, if you plan on reinstalling OS while keeping /home data, but, on the other hand, one should also have daily backups to get /home back from.) If your new system uses EFI, then you'll also need a /boot_efi partition, 200MiB, FAT32, bootable. If I had swap, I would put it on SSD. > === HDD (in this order for performance reasons): === > /var HDD, ext4, encrypted, keyfile, 25 GB > It's so large because I want to add a directory /var/src below /var > to compile a kernel on the HDD if necessary > > /databases HDD, ext4, encrypted, keyfile, barrier=0, 10 GB > Used for the db's of digikam (1 user), akonadi and amarok > (2 users each) With these sizes they would go into SSD /. > swap HDD, swapfs, encrypted, 5 GB (not hibernation) > > /video HDD, btrfs, 560 GB > Subvolumes: > /video/editing > /video/series > => for video editing or series, no backup, not encrypted > > /data HDD, btrfs, encrypted, keyfile, RAID1 (2 x 700 GB). > With subvolumes for digikam archive, movie archive and music I don't know how much video editing can benefit from btrfs, but for archives I would use two HDDs, and have btrfs partitions in btrfs-raid1 volume to protect from bit rot (see for example [1]). Sarunas Burdulis http://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas 1. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/bitrot-and-atomic-cows-inside-next-gen-filesystems/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlPk6a8ACgkQejaFVltl6E+MkACgppTEUMN4OgK92wthWgy31Q2m 0f4AoKWepvZ/JdZHr/TW5ED+rpHA5MFw =YLf1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53e4e9b2.5030...@math.dartmouth.edu
