[SOLVED] Advices to partition layout

frushiyama · 05-27-2014, 12:31 PM

I have a 16 gb micro sd card and a 500gb sata via usb which will be used on rpi.
It will have at least this three partitions:

Code:

/dev/mmcblkp0 /boot
/dev/mmcblkp1 swap
/dev/sda /

I am thinking in put /etc to use another partition from sdcard, what else would be interesting too to put there to use the rest of space from sdcard?

pan64 · 05-27-2014, 01:09 PM

do not use sdcard, but use your hard disk instead (for swap, for storage, for home, for whatever). Especially /etc may be on sdcard, but hdd is much faster (even a pendrive is faster than that sdcard). But it also depends on what is running on your pi.

TobiSGD · 05-27-2014, 01:45 PM

Keep in mind that to have /etc on an extra partition you will have to create your own customized init script inside an initramfs/initrd.

frushiyama · 05-27-2014, 08:45 PM

I did not use anything less then necessary from sdcard, so:

Code:

/dev/mmcblkp0 /boot
/dev/sda1 swap
/dev/sda2 /

thanks for the advices.

frushiyama · 05-30-2014, 11:10 AM

This, worked on first boot, but when a i had to switch it on / off, did not boot again.

Code:

/dev/mmcblkp0 /boot
/dev/sda1 swap
/dev/sda2 /

Like TobiSGD said i think it was because /etc, which is under / was under other partition, so i will do:

Code:

/dev/mmcblkp0 /boot
/dev/mmcblkp1 /
/dev/sda1 swap
/dev/sda2 /home
/dev/sda3 /usr
/dev/sda4 /tmp

frushiyama · 06-05-2014, 06:41 AM

I cant boot with swap on other device than the one with / so my final /etc/fstab:

Code:

/dev/mmcblkp0 /boot
/dev/mmcblkp1 swap
/dev/mmcblkp2 /
/dev/sda1 /home
/dev/sda2 /usr
/dev/sda3 /tmp