[SOLVED] partitions best practice

kkazia · 12-03-2015, 09:05 PM

I woild lke like to know how to work with partitions and what size recommendation for the linux,

chrism01 · 12-03-2015, 10:55 PM

It depends; what is the context eg how many disks, what size(s), is this a standalone/home wkstn or a multi-user server?
What apps/tools will it run?

Various tools inc fdisk, parted etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...oning_software

descendant_command · 12-03-2015, 11:05 PM

+1
That's like asking for the recommended size of a bag.

Germany_chris · 12-04-2015, 08:08 AM

For me:

boot is 512M
swap is equal to ram
root is 30GB
home is the rest

You might want something different

kkazia · 12-04-2015, 09:10 AM

I have a 320GB HDD and 8GB RAM

and will be running MySQL and apache.

TxLonghorn · 12-04-2015, 10:10 AM

Which distribution? Mint? Ubuntu? openSUSE? Fedora?
LVM?
RAID?
UEFI?
or Standard? (no LVM, RAID, or UEFI)

Habitual · 12-04-2015, 10:20 AM

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DiskSpace

kkazia · 12-05-2015, 07:58 AM

Linux Mint is what I use

yohey03 · 12-05-2015, 09:12 AM

Hi kkazia,

Based on your storage size,I recommend below.

/boot = 512MB
/root = 50GB
/webapps = 80GB [Apache www root directory]
/mysql_data = 120GB [For MYSQL Data files]
/backup = 50GB [For MYSQL Database backup destination]
swap = 16GB [Twice the RAM ,ideally to support Web Server and Database workloads]

Hoping that this simple advise can help you :-).

kkazia · 12-07-2015, 08:00 AM

thank you all . i have a good idea on the recommendations provided.

Habitual · 12-07-2015, 08:17 AM

Read the Release_Notes Release announcement from one of the more than 33 variations of 'LinuxMint'

IMO and in 8 years of solely Linux, 50G for / is over-kill.

yohey03's reply doesn't show a /home partition so, that's "under" /, I assume from the omission.
And seems ok to do so here. Then if true, his is at 50G is fine.

With a separate /home...
25G / is sufficient, again IMO.
And that's how'd I'd possibly layout a Server, but LM doesn't make a 'server edition'
because it's a Desktop Operation System.

No matter the architecture, no matter the Desktop Environment,
LM 17.x is Ubuntu 14.04-based under the hood and therefore LTS.

I boot legacy (I have 'on-demand' UEFI/legacy BIOS) for 3 years
and soley LM for close to 5 years total. Two'ish years this
go around.
25 G for / "tops".

The other partitions mentioned, I can't speak to those.

MadeInGermany · 12-07-2015, 11:21 AM

My eternal swap formula is

Code:

swap_GB = 2 * SQRT ( RAM_GB )

Examples:

Code:

RAM = 0.5 GB -> swap = 1.4 GB
RAM = 8 GB -> swap = 5.6 GB
RAM = 256 GB -> swap = 32 GB