[SOLVED] What to put on an empty partition - please advice.

viel · 03-07-2024, 05:55 PM

Hi again,

Sorry for bother all you again but reading your last post I couldn't stand it.

With ncdu you can see the files that use more space. You know.

Maybe an option will be mount that empty space as /opt and install some tools or repositories or games or files that use lot of space on /home and you can leave on /opt forever and don't touch it to much.

Viel.

nnx · 03-08-2024, 07:12 PM

Yes, I have considered mounting as /opt for extra data or temporary storage. Once there was and /extra partition in an older setup, and I also used /win ntfs partition a few times for shared files

But using it as /swap would be waste, since there is plenty of memory at this stage.

Thank you again for the advice!

BrunoLafleur · 03-09-2024, 02:52 AM

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Originally Posted by viel

Hi,

That home at 100% is not so good. Why is 100%?

To many applications?

Lot of files you work in?

Try to work in ram whenever possible with tmpfs on /tmp for example.

I don't really agree with one single partition because you can't reinstall system / whiteout losing /home. For me you have the correct partitions. So If you plan to have only one partition make some backups of you important data.

You can take 5G from / and leave 25G if no plan to install too more applications.

Swap about 10% of the ram.

Then the rest on /home.

So in a 80~100G disk. 300~500Mb on boot. 20% or 25% for / an 75%~80% for home. Then if you have 8~16G of ram 1~1.5G Swap.

But this depends on your preferences. If you need the maximum space possible, so as not to leave anything unused in /, I would put /boot separate and a partition for everything but making backups.

Hope that help.

Edited: u > you . Sorry. Bad habit.

For /tmp I often use this line in /etc/fstab :
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,size=5g,nr_inodes=1m 0 0

The size is half the swap size. In this example I have 10Go of swap.

/tmp can grow a lot and in your case it is taken from /. With tmpfs it is cleaned on every reboot.
/var can grow only if you have big spoolers like a lot of printings and needs more to be permanent. It takes time to grow and can be cleaned (/var/log and /var/spool for example).

pan64 · 03-10-2024, 03:58 AM

There are 4 cases:
you have a disk full (or similar) on a partition (/var, /tmp, or whatever) or there is a tool/app which needs a lot of disk space. In that case you can dedicate a partition to that to avoid disk full on /root or on any other partition.
There is no such issue, nothing to solve.
As a practice you can play with /home, /var, /opt, /tmp or any other dir to put them into a new partition, but if everything works as expected is it not necessary.
In general using swap is recommended even if you think it is useless (it is never useless), that can be a goal too.

Petri Kaukasoina · 03-10-2024, 04:11 AM

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Originally Posted by pan64

In general using swap is recommended

Using a swap file is convenient. If you think it's too small or too large, you can remove it and create a new one.