I have a 1TB segate hard drive. I want to partition that hard drive for open suse for installation. What would you consider to be the best size method for partitioning?
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You'll get a million answers, but on a drive that size I'd do the following:

/boot - 200MB ext3
/swap - 2 * RAM (max size of swap 2GB)
/ - 50 GB
/home - the rest

Of course, if you have large media collections you want available to everyone, I would change /home to be something like 100GB and then make a /media partition with most of the space since video and audio would take up the most. And use xfs or jfs for large amounts of media since they tend to handle large files better. I'm not sure how ext4 or btrfs handle large files...

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Hi there,

The best way I can think of partitioning 1 TB hdd will be as follows:

1. /boot = 200 MB is good enough but you can go with 500 MB, this will be good if you are planning to try couple of customer kernels in future. This will be your primary partition.

2. swap = just double the size of physical memory. Suppose you have 2 GB RAM then make swap = 4 GB, if RAM = 4 GB then swap of 6 GB will be good enough, you can go with 8 GB but if I have to partition I will stick with 6 GB.

3. /root = 100 GB so that you will have enough room for applications. It will be good to make root partition as LV.

4. /home = 700 GB, you can use the rest of the space for /home, I just left 190 GB so that if in future I plan to dual boot I can use this space if not I can extend my partitions configured with LVM. And yes I will partition /home as LV

I hope this helps.

I think pljvaldez's recommendations are right on the money. It's almost exactly how I do it myself. Consider using special filesystem types that are well suited to particular data if you dedicate a partition to a certain purpose. For example XFS seems to be optimal for large files such as one might create doing video capture. Or, if Windows will ever run on the host, create a FAT partition to store shared Win/Lin data.

--- rod.