Survey: How do you partition?

Unread post by **pidsley** » Wed Jun 26, 2013 9:45 pm

I am interested in how other people partition their drives, especially for new installs. I have always used separate boot, root, and home, but lately I have been using a single partition for new test installs because it saves me time in the installer and it's easier to keep track of several spins on one drive (sda3 is Trollinger, sda4 is Proof, etc). 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.

How do you set up your new installs, and why?

Unread post by **ivanovnegro** » Wed Jun 26, 2013 11:17 pm

One to rule them all because I am damn lazy. What is partitioning anyway? :D I have a backup, that's it. I have too much data with me that seperating things would be a mess. Top secret anti-X stuff is anyway not on the computer.

Unread post by **dkeg** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 4:16 am

I just put all on each spin's partition. I don't have that much data. Most of my stuff is stored elsewhere. My dotfiles and stuff i have saved on FTP, pastebin, or github. alot of times I just mount another partition and cp the good stuff over.

Unread post by **gurtid** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 5:43 am

separate root and home

Unread post by **vic** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 6:07 am

one lazy partition

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 7:01 am

lazy partitioning (one for each distro), but music and porn is on one separate partition, VMs on another. Mounted if needed.

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 10:33 am

lazy partitioning (one for each distro) as well.
/home but i'm getting fed up of that. think i'll just mount it as data.

Now how does that work with permissions? if wux(xcfe) writes to data, then wux(mate) writes to data, how does tony(bon3r) read them without typing sudo?
mount with some sort of no permissions?

Unread post by **rhowaldt** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 11:12 am

lazy here too, with a separate 'storage' partition for music and pictures of machinebacon.

Unread post by **ivanovnegro** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 4:35 pm

rhowaldt wrote:...with a separate 'storage' partition for music and pictures of machinebacon.

:lol:

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 5:47 pm

wuxmedia wrote:lazy partitioning (one for each distro) as well.
/home but i'm getting fed up of that. think i'll just mount it as data.

Now how does that work with permissions? if wux(xcfe) writes to data, then wux(mate) writes to data, how does tony(bon3r) read them without typing sudo?
mount with some sort of no permissions?

Group permissions manage this. Tony and Wux are users, so the file has to belong to the user group. It's not important from where these users access the file. You can set flags which groups should have which kind of access possibilities. http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/filepermissions.html

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 6:01 pm

thanks - should have known that 8)

Unread post by **hinto** » Fri Jun 28, 2013 3:44 am

I partition
swap
/
/home

I wouldn't necessarily call it "old school" but one learned from the "school of hard knocks".
It's muuuuuuch easier to hop if you don't have to back up /home. I rename /home/hinto before a hop; hop; then copy over pertinant information. Takes about 15 minutes for a re-image.

-Hinto

Unread post by **Potatohead** » Mon Jul 01, 2013 11:43 pm

@hinto - do your config files transfer well between different distros?

Unread post by **bones** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 12:06 am

Usually boot, root, and home, but sometimes lazy, so I chose "Whatever: I do different things for different installs."

What could also be asked, along these lines: encrypted or not? And what file system(s) do you typically use?

Unread post by **DebianJoe** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 12:16 am

1 Big partition without swap, cuz I'm a gangsta.

Unread post by **JoeMama** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 6:54 am

DebianJoe wrote:1 Big partition without swap, cuz I'm a gangsta.

You Cock Dick Mutha Fuckin Chicken Scrotum.
You paying for a new keyboard, windex for my screen, and the dry cleaning bill to get the fucking Malt Liquor stain outta my brand new all white snuggie.
You know how much 40oz of icey cold refreshing Colt 45 hurts when it comes outta yer nose?
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Unread post by **bizcuit** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 7:59 am

Hey don't take it out on Joe ! Nix-pimpin ain't easy ! ;)

More or less same as you/Pidsley. Know there are times when someone would have to have a separate /boot or whatever. Everything for one OS goes onto 1 partition here. Mainly cuz I'm lazy. Though do keep @ least a ntfs and nix shared partition handy to keep the stuff that matters to me safe n accessible. If xyz OS implodes ... oh well.

One shared swap = to system RAM. Backup partition and several idle partitions in case I ever wise up ( doubtful) and start backing stuff up like I should and/or get stricken with the distrohop itch and want to install something. Blahblahblah ...

Vll! fellows ... laterz.

Unread post by **JoeMama** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 5:11 am

^I was legitimately looking for partitioning possibilities and DJ's answer totally caught me off guard and at the exact time I was taking a sip. Although I'll admit, it was only diet Mt. Dew and I didn't spit anything up. Though I did spend the next half hour laughing and coughing cuz it made me swallow it down the wrong tube. :D

Unread post by **hinto** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 2:35 pm

@Potatohead
I usually only copy .mozilla, .thunderbird, (or the open iceweasel/icedove equivalent) and .jedit.
The rest I let the distro decide and tweak as necessary.
The only other manual tweak after a fresh install includes:
1) install autofs, and uncomment out the /net line in auto.master
2) instal samba and share user home directories.

-Hinto

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Sat Jul 06, 2013 11:36 am

DebianJoe wrote:1 Big partition without swap, cuz I'm a gangsta.

Especially helpful if you install new distros every day and have the (damned) UUID set instead of /dev names. Actually swap is bloat :)

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