2015-04-21 13:38:20 +02:00
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title: "Note to self on partitioning"
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category: [english]
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tags: [english]
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2018-04-29 10:54:08 +02:00
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2015-04-21 13:38:20 +02:00
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This post is mainly for me to document this. I usually have only / and
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/home partitions (swapfile is on /), but UEFI also requires separate
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/boot/efi and it probably doesn't hurt to train myself into making it on
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older device.
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* /boot
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* 512 MB [as recommended at ArchWiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface&oldid=365720#EFI_System_Partition)
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* FAT32
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* doesn't need to be FAT32 unless /boot/efi is on same partition
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and /boot/efi must be FAT32.
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* /
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* BTRFS
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* /home
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* BTRFS
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* swap
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* 1024 MB
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* 1024 MB has been enough for me everywhere. The least amount of
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RAM that I encounter is on my VPS which has 489 MB of RAM.
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BTRFS might not be ready for production, but my phone
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([Jolla](https://jolla.com) uses it and I haven't had any more serious
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issues than:
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* Doesn't support swapfiles (that is why I have swap partition)
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* Jolla: [BTRFS balancing is required sometimes](https://together.jolla.com/question/30822/root-and-home-disks-full-and-causing-various-problems/)
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* Laptop: when battery has ran out, [Antergos] has got stuck booting and
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I have had to `btrfs check --repair /dev/sdX` (where X is / and /home
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separately) before it starts booting again.
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