[vox-tech] recommended partition scheme for a dual boot windows 7/ubuntu machine?

[Thomas Johnston]

Hey, thanks for the prompt reply.

Yes, I intended to say "/", not "/root". As for the ext2 for the /boot
partition, I think that it was important when bootloaders were not able to
read ext4. You are probably right though, a /boot formatted as ext4
probably makes a lot more sense.



On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Vincenzo Ampolo
<vincenzo.ampolo at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 11/03/2013 03:04 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote:
> > The two issues I was trying to get a concrete answer on is: (1) is it
> > really beneficially to have a separate boot partition and (2) is it wise
> > to use a swap partition with a SSD?
>
> Your questions are legit and I don't think there is a unique answer IMHO.
>
> Even tho I find odd to have a separate /boot partition, it makes
> stranger to me to see it as an ext2 partition that doesn't have
> journaling and it's too phrone to corruption due to power loss.
>
> About /root it really depends which distro you are going to use, if you
> use ubuntu, /root will be unused. Or maybe you wanted to say / ?
>
> I used to separate / and /home but this lead to a problem: what if you
> have used all 35gb of / and you want to install another program ? That's
> why i stopped separating /home from / such that my /home just takes the
> space it needs to. Saying that having a separate /home is better for
> updates/formatting may be true, but it's 2 years i don't format anymore :D
>
> About the swap, I took it off but I've a System76 Galago ultrapro with
> 240gb ssd and 16gb ram. With 16gb of ram, swap is only needed if i want
> to hibernate, and hibernate 16gb of ram means having 16gb less on my
> 240gb hard drive. Things i don't want. I'm better of with a suspend or a
> proper shutdown in a full SSD system.
>
> So i ended up with this configuration:
>
> goshawk at earth:~$ df -hT
> Filesystem             Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1              btrfs     224G   38G  186G  17% /
> none                   tmpfs     4.0K     0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> udev                   devtmpfs  7.8G  4.0K  7.8G   1% /dev
> tmpfs                  tmpfs     1.6G  1.1M  1.6G   1% /run
> none                   tmpfs     5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
> none                   tmpfs     7.8G   17M  7.8G   1% /run/shm
> none                   tmpfs     100M   52K  100M   1% /run/user
> /dev/sda1              btrfs     224G   38G  186G  17% /home
> /home/goshawk/.Private ecryptfs  224G   38G  186G  17% /home/goshawk
> goshawk at earth:~$
>
> Which is, simply a / of 240gb with btrfs. And i use the btrfs ability to
> take snapshots if I want to do backups of / or /home.
>
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