On 2 June 2018 at 13:01, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
100 GB is overkill. 50 GB is enough, IME.
My rule of thumb is at least three times as much as "/" has in use. As mine has 66 GB now, I would need at least 198 GB btrfs root partition. I don't see 100 GB as overkill for typical user. :-}
And planing for the future, as repartitioning an existing hard disk is a chore, I would make that even bigger. Me, I would allocate 500 GB on a 4 TB rotating rust disk.
Once upon a time, I thought that a 200 MB /boot partition was ample enough. It wasn't, after some years...
A separate /boot partition can be more harmful than beneficial these days; for example on openSUSE distributions it prevents the use of boot-to-snapshot features which are really nice to have by default My rule of thumb is to avoid needless partitioning - have as few partitions as possible, and have each as large as possible So my in my case my boot SSD/HDD device is almost always dominated by a large btrfs partition with /, with the only other partitions being the minimum needed for UEFI booting. That does not include a /boot. I occasionally mount /home on a different SSD/HDD if the machine in question has multiple drives. I'm just as likely to have /home part of the / partition and make a /data partition on that second disk and symlink across folders containing large amounts of data (Downloads, VM images, etc) And as btrfs is heavily mentioned in this thread I'd like to make sure that everyone with an interest in using btrfs watches my lightning talk from oSC - https://media.ccc.de/v/1915-btrfs-is-awesome-except-when-it-isn-t It covers topics like analysing space in use, tidying up snapshots, and repairing a broken filesystem, all of which I've seen significant amounts of misinformation about in the past. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org