Hi, mentors!

I've used Linux with 1 SSD and 2 HDDs (1TB each).
And today I suddenly had a question about partition schemes.

For a long time, I partitioned my disks as below.
Now, are there any other good options for me?
or is it bad in some way?

Nobody here can advise if it's good or bad because for you because we don't know your use case.

Looks ok for a desktop system, as I'm assuming you're mounting the linuxhome lv on /home and want the space to store your user files.

Partitioning scheme questions are like What's your favourite distro? EVERYONE will have an opinion and none of them are right for every single use case!

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Basically, as long as your files are kept separate from the O/S, so that the O/S can be upgraded without affecting them, it boils down to how you want to work with them.

Me, I give / about 5~10GB, depending on distro & usage of machine, because I don't add a lot of extra software, & the rest is for my stuff. Sometimes it is just /home, other times it is /home & /data, others have /music & /media or /videos on a separate partition.

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Thanks for your reply! I was worried about whether that scheme has technical flaws or not. If it's all right, then I'll stick to these.
Thanks again!

Since your data is spread over two disks sdb and sdc, the MTBF of the whole setup is shorter than a single disk. In other words, your data is a little bit more at risk than if it were on a single disk.

Therefore, don't forget backing it up.

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OK! I also worried about that and thinking about writing some script and tarball the important directories.
Thanks!

Putting SSD as root and boot disk is a good idea. But, if you want fast reaction times I would also recommend to put /home/userx on the SSD. Then you can mount /dev/sdbx under /home/userx/folder where you expect alot of data, or just for convenience. And perhaps /home (/dev/sdbx)

Other than that there are considerations such as making a separate /boot (/dev/sdax) and /opt (/dev/sdbx) as well and even things like /tmp and /var could be considered. You could drop the SWAP if you have enough RAM as well. 8 or more GB ram I would definetely not use Swap, probably not at 4gb either, depending.

If you use SSD and sdb (hdd) like this, SDC would be ideal for aditional distroes etc and raw storage (/mnt?). Like someone said, it depends on your own needs and preferences. But here is how I would do it personally:

SSD
/dev/sda1 EFI
(/dev/sda2 /boot if I need, 2-5gb)
/dev/sda2 / (50-75gb)
/dev/sda3 /home (200gb)

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/distro2 50gb
/dev/sdb2 /mnt/distro3 50gb
/dev/sdb3 /mnt/distro3 50gb
/dev/sdb4 /tmp 10gb
/dev/sdb5 /opt 100gb
/dev/sdb6 /home/user1/videos(or downloads), 200gb
(/dev/sdb7 /home/user2, xgb)
(/dev/db8 /home/user1/whateverfolder xgb)

/dev/sdc1 1tb /mnt/folder

Instead of putting /home on SSD, you can put /home/user1 on SSD and make /dev/sdb6 700GB and mount it /home and drop the rest.

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512M for the EFI System sounds a bit excessive to me. I'm thrifty with my disk space. 100 to 200MB should be enough.

I definitely think 8G for swap is too much unless you want to use hibernate to disk. I have been using exactly none for longer than I can remember and my machine performs very well.

I use suspend to RAM every day. I reboot my box about five or six times a year. I never needed hibernate to disk.

TenTenths said it best. There is not one right answer for that.

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