What I do for a new machine?

[Avi Greenbury]

LinuxIsOne wrote:

> That is good, but just as a point of information please let me know if
> I separate also like Olivier said -
> 
> ext4 / = 20 GB
> ext4 /boot = 5 GB
> ext4 /home = 180 GB (encrypted)
> ext4 /opt = 10 GB
> ext4 /tmp = 10 GB
> ext4 /usr/local = 10 GB
> ext4 /var = 10 GB
> swap = 5 GB (encrypted)
> 
> there should/should not be any harm....if we do...(just for
> knowledge)...

Well, everything will work now, but you'll find yourself needing to
boot into a LiveCD to jiggle the sizes of the partitions as you find
that your use-case calls for some of those to be bigger than others. Do
you really have plans to install 10GB worth of stuff in /opt? And 5GB
worth of kernels in /boot?

If you really want the complexity of all of those, you can mitigate the
pain somewhat by using LVM to make it easier to rejig their sizes, but
that does make it yet more complicated, and things like system rescues
become even less fun.

Personally. I'd stick it all in /, maybe have a separate /boot.

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Avi