what partitioning do you have on your hard drive? And what folder structure?
How many partitions you have and what you store on each partition? what is size of each partition? what order of partitions you have (especially important for mechanical HDD's as they are the fastest at beginning of drive, slowest at end)? One drive or more? Do you use external drives? For what purpose? What is your folder structure on your hdd (root/main directories)? What kind of things you store on your hdd? (like games, programs, music, movies, documents, books, virtual machines, porn, your personal video recordings, etc) Are all of your disk encrypted? With what tool and method? inb4 datamining - if you think it is, just answer questions that don't invade your privacy
How about I think this is and tell you to fuck off instead.
Jaxon Robinson
just wanted to know what is good way to do partitions and what stuff to keep on each partition and what folder structure is optimal
Ryder Peterson
There's a thread for tech support questions already.
Hudson Scott
First partition in ESP (UEFI boot partition) Followed by C: (Windows) and the System recovery partition C:\Windows for the OS C:\Users as home and desktop folder C:\Program Files for program files
Jose Sanders
we don't believe you. are you hiding something from us?
Jaxon Morris
I'm using Windows nigger does it look like I'm hiding shit? I see what you're trying to do tho
Adrian Howard
20GB / rest is /home put whatever folders you like in /home
Adrian Cooper
1, count em, 1 Linux 83, count em, 83 type 1, count em, 1 3, count em, 3 ext partition, with the bootflag on. Everything there as root. 1, count em, 1 partition. 1, count em, 1 TB. 1, count em, 1 as 1. 3, count em, 3 exts. 1, count em, 1 base linux install. A number that keeps on growing, count em, a number that keeps on growing amount of hacker leaks. 0, count em, 0 encrypted partitions.
Owen Price
don't partition your data. use LVM I keep all my CP in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ I keep my terroristic plots to overthrow the US government while oppressing minorities and blowing up federal buildings in /var/tmp
Easton Phillips
>not kept in /var/trump
Colton Clark
On my current harddrive I have the whole thing minus 6 GiB in a ext4 partition for my whole operating system. 6 GiB of swap. I then also mount a harddrive which contains a bunch of random data. I then also mount all my previous installs in case I need to chroot into them to run a program or something silly.
Henry Flores
In more ways than one was that a joke. Notice the hidden "ru" in the word "trump." Coincidence?
Brayden Richardson
partitions are the king
Robert Sullivan
holy shit i'm FREAKING OUT
Charles Nelson
All partitions Ext4.
Levi Hughes
32GB SSD with FDE (including boot) EXT4 30GB root and 2GB swap (low swappiness)
All my other disks are fully encrypted storage drives (btrfs).
I have an obsd server with default structure.
You are a dumbass
Cooper King
512MB ESP * Btrfs subvols
Isaac Miller
Hard drives are botnet. I have a microSD with EFI and default OpenBSD partitions. No swap tho. OpenBSD part is encrypted. Key is stored on a paper tape, read via serial port paper tape reader. I think one time I light a cigar with the tape by mistake. Oh well, shit happens. Tend to get distracted when people knock at the door.
All my lolis live in /usr/src/bin/cp
Logan King
This is what I do
40MB EFI (on newer machines) 256-512MB /boot 8-12GB / RAM x 2 Swap (if less than 8GB) Remainder /home
Addition internal drives fstabbed /mnt/sda (mkdir user name and chown) /mnt/sdb (rsync backup cronjob) /mnt/sdc (mkdir user name and chown) /mnt/sdd (rsync backup cronjob)
Removable media Should automatically pop up in /media
Evan Price
I'd like to add on this, Microsoft has a 100MB partition for EFI. I've tried 32MB, but apparently that wasn't enough so I rounded up to 40MB. It just werks.
Ryder Lopez
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Xavier Ross
Wow damn my EFI file is 119k. I don't understand why you're required to make the partition so big, but then again, I don't understand UEFI.
Elijah Parker
Last I checked Linux did not do it itself (OpenBSD does), and it's critical when using full disk encryption. The only reason I even have that is as a buffer for when some stupid program goes on a memory spree, which rarely happens on a toaster laptop with 8GB RAM and Xfce.
You probably don't need swap if you setup ulimit values correctly.
Christopher Ward
All you use is floppies or USB sticks/memory cards? Because any hard drive must have at least one partition.
Nathan Gutierrez
Bullshit.
Carson Flores
Holy shit how did this usenet post from 1997 get here?
Ryder Brown
Fucking poorfags, get off my 'net.
Ian Foster
Then show me an example of a HDD/SSD configuration with a working filesystem but no partition table. It does work for removable drives such as floppies, "superfloppies", USB sticks, memory cards etc. but not for fixed drives.
Daniel Hall
No multibooters at all? I knew that $CURRENTYEAR /g/tards are all like "one disk = one partition = one OS", but I expected a little better from Holla Forums.
John Rogers
Nvram likes to fill up and purging it can be a nightmare. Fedora likes to dump a hundred platform keys into it for instance
Logan Martin
One OS per machine is all I need. Debian handles the freedoms on my X200/X200T, Windows handles the dirty stuff on my heavier laptop.
Segregating /var and /tmp makes sense to reduce fragmentation since they have frequent writes.
Jacob Bell
Please elaborate on what would make you think that dividing a hard disk into multiple partitions made sense in the 1990s but not anymore thereafter (because that's what you appear to believe, inferring from your post).
Jacob Lewis
People think that 'one partition = one OS'? Shit.
Michael Carter
A sane minimum is two partitions, one for the OS and one for data. Having the OS on a big partition which stretches all over the disk will make OS files become dispersed all over the disk as files are deleted and copied in updates etc. Also it makes things more difficult if the OS needs to be wiped and reinstalled (with data on a separate partition you can reinstall the OS with the data untouched). Additional partition might be involved, such as UEFI partition, recovery partition etc. Also since Vista Windows will make a separate 100MB BOOTMGR partition if you install it on a disk which doesn't have any active primary partitions. For Linux you need a swap partition, should at least separate / and /home (as per the above - separate partitions for OS and data), it might also make sense to have separate partitions for /boot, /var, /tmp (those two are important on servers, so logs couldn't possibly fill up / and bring the system down), some even make /usr separate. If multibooting different OSes there are many possibilities depending on the particular setup (OSes, bootloaders, etc.). One might also make multiple partitions for data, though that is rarely needed (and can sometimes backfire if one volume happens to fil up and then you need to put things where they don't really belong). Generally partitioning is very useful, those who claim otherwise obviously don't know much about it and are trying to hide their lack of knowledge by trying to ridicule it and making fallacious and uninformed statements.
Brody Turner
I never managed to get a /boot partition working on GPT. Not sure if because of me or cfdisk.
Juan Rivera
An OS might strech over many partitions, and you could put multiple OSes on a single partition (not exactly very elegant, but possible - for example, see 's picture where Win98 and DRDOS sit both on a single FAT16 partition).
Jack Robinson
Primary laptop Disk: Unknown 240GB NVMe M.2 SSD 256MB ESP vfat /EFI -> rEFInd / -> vmlinuz, vmlinuz-failsafe EFIStub kernels 4GB swap ~236GB Gentoo rootfs f2fs Generic Gentoo system for the most part /var/cache/ccache/ contains ccache files for Portage, each package gets its own directory /usr/local/bin contains self-made helper scripts /home/$USER is structured in directories like Documents Movies Music Downloads where everything except Downloads is automatically synced via ownCloud, all file contents are encrypted on the server. No LUKS or anything on the local machine, and while my kernel does support native F2FS encryption, so far I never used it.
The desktop/home server I never use Disk: Seagate Barracuda 5400RPM 2TB literal 2011-tier SpinningRust™ ~1.7TB generic Win7 Ultimate with gaymes ~2MB grub_bios ~128MB ext4 boot with GRUB and kernels ~270GB Gentoo rootfs ext4 /main.swap: 10GB swap file for emergencies Otherwise same setup as above except the synced folders in /home/$USER are all in a designated folder, all other directories are random junk and the source for a custom out-of-tree rt8192cu kernel module. ~30GB btrfs unused Originally designed for testing advanced cloud storage ideas, remains unused to this day.
Jose Rivera
Do you put portable programs (that don't install into the OS but just come in a *.zip etc. and work from anywhere) in "Program Files", or elsewhere? Do you sort files by subject first and then (if at all) by file type, or the other way around (i.e. do you keep all your PDFs in one directory divided by subjects, or do you keep any PDF along with other files on same subject, regardless of type)?
Do you keep most of your data on just one disk(or array), or is it dispersed over many disks? If the latter, how do you keep things organized and keep track of what is where?
Jaxon Hughes
Is that the physical order of partitions on your disks? If so, it strikes me as a little odd.
Joseph Morales
woo woo woo you know it
Brayden Bailey
Solid state drives.
Jordan Price
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Nolan Morgan
And where does you belief those would make partitioning irrelevant stem from? Short-stroking (HDDs have greater speed at the beginning, as opposed to SSDs) is by far not the only reason for dividing a drive into multiple partitions (>>867958 named quite a few).
Nicholas Jackson
SSDs don't fragment. Bulk data should not be on your system drive to begin with. Even Windows can do a non-destructive reinstall. Dual booting is ancient history with improved compatibility for live USB and VMs. I could go on but I'm not going to, I know Holla Forums is too proud to admit that they might be wrong. I don't know why I even bother.
Brody Smith
Opinion discarded.
Jose Price
I just zfs datasets for that. Gentoo Musl, HBSD, and Gentoo glibc so that I can make sure my patches don't fuck up gpooc before I send them upstream .
Blake Rivera
Sure. Why restrain yourself to mere dual-booting when you can multi-boot like a boss.
dual-booting implies you're still using windows-- multiboot implies you can't into VM/jails
Nolan Russell
So you can't dual boot two non-Windows OSes? So there's no reasons to run OSes natively anymore? Maybe you would like to have mainboards with a mandatory hypervisor built into firmware, where you can't install anything natively?
Ayden Stewart
Hey man, I'm not the other guy, I'm just telling you what he's implying. Personally, I don't like the idea of virtual machines, other than to test stuff that is too dangerous for good hardware.
Eli Jenkins
I mean technically I multiboot, but it's pointless since I'm always in my main distro. If I ever need anything from a different one I can almost always just use directly or chroot into it and use it.
Caleb Anderson
I have a nvme drive partitioned with 1) EFI system partition /boot/efi 2) LUKS encrypted btrfs /boot 3) LUKS encrypted swap
I use an array of eMLC ssds unpartitioned, holding LUKS encrypted btrfs raid-1 /
No dual-booting plans, if I wanted to try a toy os like windows I'd use one of my older machines.
Benjamin Butler
I wouldn't recommend storing LUKS keys on the same SSD drive you encrypt since it's unproven whether erasing information off flash memory is reliable enough. I use external flash drive with bootloader that I always keep with me. In case of emergency, it's much easier to destroy than an internal NVMe drive.
Logan Collins
Won't setting a ulimit just kill processes though when it tries to go above? Even if swap causes the system to grind to a halt it at least gives me a chance to notice and cause an orderly closing of a program.
Robert Davis
A swap partition the size of my RAM, and a compress=lzo btrfs partition that spans the rest of the disk. I used to have a separate /home partition, back when I sometimes blew up my system. It came in handy once or twice and then I became competent enough not to blow up my system any more, and also competent enough to debootstrap around /home in the unlikely case I'd need to, so I stopped dividing it up.
Leo Stewart
one 20mb because grub needs it and another for everything else. CP encrypted to the cloud via Joint Intel+Google+kik (R) SecureCloud (TM)
Ryder Bailey
A block device is a block device is a block device. What's a partition, anyway? Are we talking about MBR partitions or GPT partitions? Or something entirely differnet? I've been regularly using HDDs without partition tables for years. Just run mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda and mount it wherever you like. The first 1024 bytes of an ext4 filesystem are padding, so you could even fit a bootloader in there.
Jaxson Thomas
It's non-compliant to put a filesystem directly onto a physical disk unless it's removable. How will fdisk react in such a situation? Fixed disks are supposed to have a partition table in place (whether MBR, GPT, or some other obscure scheme is secondary), they are not floppies where you just go like mkfs.msdos /dev/fd0 and be done with it.
Henry Harris
So are we talking about 'working' or 'compliant'? And compliant with what, exactly?
I don't know, but why does it matter?
Isaiah Williams
I just noticed you could put a ext fs directly on a block device which is smaller than the block device itself, create a mbr partition table in the padding and add partitions that come after your fs. Then you could mount /dev/sda as well as /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2...!
Ryder Baker
If I understand you, you're telling me to use a detached LUKS header? How the fuck are LUKS headers sensitive information? Here's one of my LUKS headers, what's wrong with this being at the head of the disk? # cryptsetup luksDump /dev/sdaLUKS header information for /dev/sdaVersion: 1Cipher name: aesCipher mode: xts-plain64Hash spec: sha512Payload offset: 4096MK bits: 512MK digest: ff eb ae 51 c6 c3 d0 da da ba ee cd aa 66 4b 7f 8f b9 61 c6 MK salt: 59 cd 34 9f 11 e3 93 da 3d 5f 05 02 c6 ee b4 22 ed c1 a9 ea 7e 98 7b e1 92 2b f8 76 3f b0 3e bf MK iterations: 146941UUID: 3c71a584-3e29-4934-980a-be2df5c7c0adKey Slot 0: ENABLED Iterations: 1000 Salt: 6a 5d 97 2d 38 98 93 83 05 28 2e 04 a2 e5 d9 7a 50 bb 3c 89 d3 60 31 ee cb a9 15 c2 6e ab 31 89 Key material offset: 8 AF stripes: 4000Key Slot 1: ENABLED Iterations: 11755330 Salt: c5 f1 2a 0e 2e a9 15 56 b2 ba 84 ab 93 45 1c 66 c6 49 c4 c9 57 ed ac 7e 4c 7b f2 5d 14 21 cb 98 Key material offset: 512 AF stripes: 4000Key Slot 2: DISABLEDKey Slot 3: DISABLEDKey Slot 4: DISABLEDKey Slot 5: DISABLEDKey Slot 6: DISABLEDKey Slot 7: DISABLED
Daniel Torres
Which operating system installer supports the lack of partitions and creating a filesystem on a raw physical disk? Which operating system supports booting in such a setup? Just because you pulled off some hack which works under specific conditions doesn't mean it's good practice. Virtually all disk utilities expect a fixed disk to have a partition table. Have fun meandering around self-inflicted issues and making life difficult for yourself.
Easton Foster
Aha, now we're from 'compliant' to 'good practice'. I've literally had nothing but a LUKS on my laptop's HDD for more than five years. The bootloader and kernel were on a SD card. I'm still putting my backups on unpartitioned HDDs because why not? It works under all the conditions how?
Aiden Sullivan
If you don't care with compliance to what OS installers and tools such as fdisk expect, you're on your own. Don't complain if by any chance shit breaks or gets corrupted somehow. Good luck.
