blog: my new partitioning scheme (?)

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