The only other thing I'd add - if you're planning to dual boot a machine - allow both operating systems enough space. The machine on which I'm typing this has a 256G disk. It came to me with Windows 10 and I retained a Windows partition to do manufacturer's updates and so on. I gave the Windows partition 30G and thought that would be fine. Not so: I had to resize the partition after the fact and 40G has proved fine. Fortunately, I had no data to save but it's worth thinking about.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 10:22 PM Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > Andrew Cater wrote: > > 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 > > It's not a bad choice, but a separate home has made any number > of upgrades and experiments much more bearable to me. Backups, > too, of course. > > -dsr- >
