On 9/16/2025 7:14 PM, Go Canes wrote:
On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM home user via users
<users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
The new desktop has:
* 1 TB M.2(?) NVMe(?) drive for the operating system and installed
applications, and
* 4 TB spindle drive for personal stuff.
Assume that I want most things stored uncompressed and unencrypted.
Assume that in addition to the kernel, I'd like to keep 5 old kernels +
a rescue.
FWIW I give /boot 1GB and use the default of 3 kernels (+1 rescue). I
would add +250MB for each additional kernel. If you want to be extra
cautious add another 500MB on top of that.
Unless you are generating a lot of data the 1TB NVMe drive should be
plenty for the OS *and* your personal files. Use the 4TB spinning
drive for things like videos, large picture collections, local
backups, etc. Basically use the NVMe for "main line" storage and the
4TB drive for "near line" storage.
Welllll.....
I'm preferring the harder separation of system space and user space from
each other.
I think that ideally, long, high resolution videos would be better on
the NVMe drive, because it's faster. But such files are also a lot
bigger, and would quickly consume the drive's space. All the other user
files being on the spinning drive should be fine. It's slower, but I
seriously doubt I'll notice.
I saw swap mentioned along the way.... This is a matter of personal
preference. I'm old-school, and I tend to use a lot of RAM (too many
firefox tabs), so I have a swap partition in addition to the "zram"
swap.
Thank-you.
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