opinions about partition sizes

[Waldemar Villamayor-Venialbo]

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 at 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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