From 2f1c84bf64f4a7d174eaa63aafdbf70e96afa19e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikaela Suomalainen Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 14:38:20 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] blog: my new partitioning scheme (?) --- _posts/2015-04-21-partitioning.md | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2015-04-21-partitioning.md diff --git a/_posts/2015-04-21-partitioning.md b/_posts/2015-04-21-partitioning.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1324e06 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2015-04-21-partitioning.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +layout: post +comments: true +title: "Note to self on partitioning" +category: [english] +tags: [english] +--- + +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.