Survey: How do you partition?
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Re: Survey: How do you partition?
it should really make more physical sense to make any swap file on the local area of the disk being used, rather than the other end of the platter as a swap partition...
Re: Survey: How do you partition?
Normally I have / and /home separate and I have a separate data partition.
Each installed OS mounts that data partition.
Currently running three distros, two with / & /home and /bakewell is all on one 16gb partition, it so small but it mounts the data partition as well.
Each installed OS mounts that data partition.
Currently running three distros, two with / & /home and /bakewell is all on one 16gb partition, it so small but it mounts the data partition as well.
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Re: Survey: How do you partition?
i keep my music/movies/tv/porn on external drives, so generally i'll mash it all into one. at the moment i have seperate root and boot though.
Re: Survey: How do you partition?
Partition 1 = 30GB / Install Grub
Partition 2 = 6GB swap 3x laptop ram
Partition 3 = remaining space /home
Partition 2 = 6GB swap 3x laptop ram
Partition 3 = remaining space /home
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Re: Survey: How do you partition?
I'm not sure if you also want to know concepts like LUKS, LVM, Samba shares.
All data such as movies, music, images, etc. are integrated via a server. I use a host server (with LUKS and LVM) for virtualization of guest systems, Samba and OpenVPN. Each VM for a media server (BitTorrent, good old donkey, MPD, FlexGet etc.), web servers (RSS aggregator, wikis, websites ...) and a mail server (postfix, dovecot, roundcube, clamav .. .).
So all clients are set up with minimal own disk space and LUKS/LVM. All clients have only the classic three: root, home, swap.
Yes, I am a junkie of modularity. And a fan of LVM. LVM fists all classic and static partition tables.
All data such as movies, music, images, etc. are integrated via a server. I use a host server (with LUKS and LVM) for virtualization of guest systems, Samba and OpenVPN. Each VM for a media server (BitTorrent, good old donkey, MPD, FlexGet etc.), web servers (RSS aggregator, wikis, websites ...) and a mail server (postfix, dovecot, roundcube, clamav .. .).
So all clients are set up with minimal own disk space and LUKS/LVM. All clients have only the classic three: root, home, swap.
Yes, I am a junkie of modularity. And a fan of LVM. LVM fists all classic and static partition tables.
Re: Survey: How do you partition?
Same. Data is the big one, but all the ~/.stuff stays separate in each distro. If data mounts at boot it's really handy having all the regular scripts etc available right off. (If different distros need different versions of scripts you can use different names - startup-wheezy.sh etc.) I symlink a lot of personal directories - Downloads etc - off to data too.pidsley wrote:If I have more than one spin on a drive I also use a shared data partition (mounted in fstab in each spin) where I keep things like music, wallpapers and scripts that can be shared by all the spins.
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Re: Survey: How do you partition?
/
/home
/swap
Pretty much on every PC I worked on.
/home
/swap
Pretty much on every PC I worked on.
Re: Survey: How do you partition?
Using Logical Volume Manager.
One logical volume per installed distro.
One distro - a sid install - is my main one and has all data that I want to keep.
When booted into another distro and I need some data from another install, I just mount the logical volume on a mount point in /mnt using a shell buffer in emacs to mount it and dired to browse it. Using tramp to access root owned files from my user instance of emacs.
I have one user instance of emacs running - well one instance as daemon and another emacsclient instance, and I can do whatever I want from that emacslient instance.
One logical volume per installed distro.
One distro - a sid install - is my main one and has all data that I want to keep.
When booted into another distro and I need some data from another install, I just mount the logical volume on a mount point in /mnt using a shell buffer in emacs to mount it and dired to browse it. Using tramp to access root owned files from my user instance of emacs.
I have one user instance of emacs running - well one instance as daemon and another emacsclient instance, and I can do whatever I want from that emacslient instance.
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