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

[Bill Broadley]

On 11/03/2013 03:26 PM, Vincenzo Ampolo wrote:
> 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:~$
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> 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.

I'm quite fond of btrfs.  Not brave enough to run it for my /home... 
yet.  Happy so far?  Figure I'd wait until an OS distribution or two 
standardizes on btrfs and the huge increase in adoptions works out the bugs.

In particular the occasionally disk full can become a major issue on 
btrfs last I heard.

I noticed your /home is encrypted... why?  What is your use case?  The 
reason I ask is that I generally recommend against it.  Linux in 
particular will leak information into /tmp, /var, swap, and related 
places.  Usually if it's worth encrypting, it's worth encrypting the 
entire disk.
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