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What are the best practices to partition a linux system with?

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buwho@lemmy.ml
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i usually have efi boot partition (512mb), / (linux root), /home (i usually make this pretty big) , and swap partition.

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Papamousse@beehaw.org
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Same: EFI, then / is small like 50GB, and home is the remaining of disk. My swap is the size of RAM so I could hibernate but in fact never use it really, as my system either sleep or if shutdowned, can boot in a few seconds. You cannot go wrong with the setup from @buwho@lemmy.ml.

There was a time when I had (and we needed) complicated partition… one for / really small like a few MB, and basically one for bin, etc, var, use, home, tmp (not a lot of RAM at the time so tmp was on disk, not in ram) etc.

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vettnerk@lemmy.ml
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Same, except I also keep /var on a separate partition (old FreeBSD habit), as the I/O characteristics of /var are usually very different from rest of /

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