To be honest, on 256G - when you don't know what you want - I'd be inclined to take the guided partitioning all in one partition layout as a good start. Logs rotate these days, downloads can be deleted. If you know you're going to be running lots of things in one particular partition, that's slightly different - I have 6TB as a dedicated LVM volume under /srv here in one machine because there's a local Linux mirror across my desk, but that's exceptional
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 9:23 PM Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > gajuph4...@yahoo.com wrote: > > I have manually partitioned my hard disk drive as follows: > > > > /boot is assigned 200MB > > /root is assigned 10GB > > /swap is assigned 20GB > > /home is assigned 35GB > > /var is assigned 10GB > > /usr is assigned 5GB > > /usr-local is assigned 5GB > > /opt is assigned 5GB > > /srv is assigned 5GB > > > > In terms of capacity, which of the above partitions are over-provisioned? > > > > All of them, none of them. These are the sorts of hard > assignments I expect from the UNIX Systems Administrator > Handbook, circa 1997 and Solaris. > > My recommendation: > > / 100 GB > /home 100 GB > swap 1 GB > optionally, /var 20 GB. > > You don't need a separate /boot unless you're running an odd > filesystem for root. > > You don't need more swap than 1 GB because any use of swap after > the kernel settles things down (say, ten minutes after boot) > means that you need more RAM. And you don't really need more > RAM. > > You don't need a separate /usr or /usr/local or /opt or /srv > under any conditions. That differentiation comes from a time > when disks were tens of megabytes. > > You only need a separate /var if you think you're going to fill > up log space or similar without noticing. logrotate is pretty > standard these days. > > -dsr- > >
