Boot confusion

[Jack McGee]

On 6/11/21 5:06 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 at 23:53, Jack McGee <jack at greendesk.net> wrote:
>
>
> So one question is this: how do you want to partition the big SSD?
> It's very wasteful to have a ~1TB root partition. Mine are typically
> 16GB and 8GB on smaller distros. With openSUSE and Btrfs I use 32-64GB
> allowing for lots of snapshots.
>
> 930GB is crazy. It's 10x bigger than you need. You could keep some
> spare copies, say.
>
>>> Device     Boot      Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
>>> /dev/sdb1  *            63 1376528246 1376528184 656.4G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
>>> /dev/sdb2       1376528382 1953523711  576995330 275.1G  5 Extended
>>> /dev/sdb5       1718511616 1943887871  225376256 107.5G 83 Linux
>>> /dev/sdb6       1943889920 1953523711    9633792   4.6G 82 Linux swap
>>> / Solaris
>>> /dev/sdb7       1376528384 1704552447  328024064 156.4G 83 Linux
>>> /dev/sdb8       1704554496 1718505471   13950976   6.7G 82 Linux swap
>>> / Solaris
> What's in them? Anything worth keeping as an emergency spare?
>

I guess I partition the 1tb SSD for 100 gig for 20.04 root filesystem.  
Maybe another backup root filesystem also.  Swap here also.

Nothing worth saving on the 1tb hard drive.  There are some old home 
directories I need to sort throuhh, but it's just 10.04, 14.04 old 
installations, etc