Hello, insightful users!
I finally got a new desktop system for my home office, so I get to tinker with a completely fresh install.
My query is how to best divide the storage. I will be installing the system on SSD, and I tentatively decided to put swap, /home, /var, and /tmp directories on a separate, conventional hard drive on the assumption that this is where most of the rapidly changing data (and most of the disk writes) would be.
I put swap in it's own partition, sized by the old two-times-RAM (24GB, in my case -- woohoo!) rule of thumb. Not even sure if that rule still applies.
The rest of the 2TB spindle is configured LVM, and in that reside the /home, /tmp, and /var directories. In my ignorance, I guessed 50GB for /var and 100GB for /tmp, and the rest for /home. (I do a lot of audio and video work, so I figured /tmp might be used heavily.)
Does that arrangement sound sensible? Does anybody have a contrary opinion about how it should be divided? Or better: is there a way to make the division between /home, /tmp, and /var more fluid?
-Alan
Hello,
I believe the 'two-times-RAM' rule does not hold anymore if you have 4GB RAM or more.
Here is my layout, I have just 4GB RAM ;)
Workstation Partition Layout -------------------------------------------------- sda HDD 114499MB sda1 PRI /boot ext4 500MB sda2 PVM 113997MB vg_station LVM 113984MB lv_root / ext4 10016MB lv_var /var ext4 4000MB lv_opt /opt ext4 6016MB lv_local /usr/local ext4 4000MB lv_home /home ext4 512MB lv_tmp /tmp ext4 1024MB lv_swap swap 2016MB /var/lib/apache /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/postgresql --------------------------------------------------
The rest of the HDD is reserved for expanding when needed.
You have to plan your /home and /tmp sizes if you do audio/video working... mine is just a development workstation.
Regards
2012/9/24 Alan Evans ame.fedora@gmail.com:
Hello, insightful users!
I finally got a new desktop system for my home office, so I get to tinker with a completely fresh install.
My query is how to best divide the storage. I will be installing the system on SSD, and I tentatively decided to put swap, /home, /var, and /tmp directories on a separate, conventional hard drive on the assumption that this is where most of the rapidly changing data (and most of the disk writes) would be.
I put swap in it's own partition, sized by the old two-times-RAM (24GB, in my case -- woohoo!) rule of thumb. Not even sure if that rule still applies.
The rest of the 2TB spindle is configured LVM, and in that reside the /home, /tmp, and /var directories. In my ignorance, I guessed 50GB for /var and 100GB for /tmp, and the rest for /home. (I do a lot of audio and video work, so I figured /tmp might be used heavily.)
Does that arrangement sound sensible? Does anybody have a contrary opinion about how it should be divided? Or better: is there a way to make the division between /home, /tmp, and /var more fluid?
-Alan
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