Partitioning schemes separate var and usr and boot 4 unfussy root?

MLEvD · 2021-04-10 08:48:52

How do you like to partition things? I like to have /var and /usr and /boot on separate partitions. This way, root only needs 600MB and only has 7,395ish files to check on boot. Am I being pointless? I certainly feels good this way.

Also, /opt is separate, for installing firefox and nuking whole partition after for privacy.

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Dutch_Master · 2021-04-10 09:29:09

I have /boot, / and /home on separate partitions, most of the time, for simplicity/speed/convenience. For servers, /usr and /var are also separate.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2021-04-10 09:55:30

Single btrfs partition with separate subvolumes for the each distribution's / & /home directories plus subvolumes for the (automated) daily snapshots and another one just for Steam. I was running four distributions from the same partition at one stage but I've trimmed it down to two now.

EDIT: and an EFI system partition but I don't leave that mounted at all (it's listed in /etc/fstab under /efi but it has the noauto option applied).

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dice · 2021-04-10 11:54:32

For devuan, just boot and root partitions. I have no issues with boot time, around 10 seconds to boot from startup with encrypted root.

The Openbsd machine is a bit different, it uses disklabel partitions, https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html

Geoff 42 · 2021-04-10 14:38:33

I have a separate partition on my SSD for /boot with further partitions under LVM for / and /home.

Then on my HDD I have a partition for swap with further partitions under LVM for /var as well as my VMs which run under Xen.

The idea was to have the potentially rapidly changing stuff on the HDD, but boot quickly off the SSD. It seemed like a good idea at the time ;-)

Ogis1975 · 2021-04-13 12:39:32

On a separate partitions / and /home i use old 1 TB hdd disk, which no longer has any operating systems (except Devuan)

GlennW · 2021-04-13 23:43:34

I get a little bit carried away, gradually...

Separate GPT partitions for

bios grub (1Mb)
/
swap
/tmp
/usr
/var
/usr/src
/home

Then I have all the archive partitionss attached to /home/.../local/

And 2 other linux distro hdd's (both beowulf atm).

List, list so nothings missed.

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Head_on_a_Stick · 2021-04-14 05:05:40

^ Shouldn't /tmp be mounted in RAM?

$ findmnt /tmp                                                            
TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS
/tmp   tmpfs  tmpfs  rw,nosuid,nodev,size=8048848k,nr_inodes=409600,inode64
$

I know systemd does that by default, not sure about sysvinit.

GlennW · 2021-04-14 08:50:51

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

^ Shouldn't /tmp be mounted in RAM?
$ findmnt /tmp                                                            
TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS
/tmp   tmpfs  tmpfs  rw,nosuid,nodev,size=8048848k,nr_inodes=409600,inode64
$
I know systemd does that by default, not sure about sysvinit.

That is probably a leftover from mandriva or mageia, systemd.

How can I test if it's being used or not, and , like frequency and size? Do you know?

I can't remember why I did that...

edit... it was probably part of setting up a proxied firewalled self server written by Ashton Mills, using Mandrake, but I got there a bit late and had to use Mandriva.

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Geoff 42 · 2021-04-14 14:54:24

To make /tmp a tmpfs you edit /etc/defaults/tmpfs and remove the '#' from

RAMTMP=yes

which defaults to "no"

GlennW · 2021-04-14 22:31:02

Thank you Geoff 42. I'll try that for a while and see if my system needs it.

p.s. The file is at /etc/default/tmpfs

Last edited by GlennW (2021-04-14 22:32:04)

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Partitioning schemes separate var and usr and boot 4 unfussy root?

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