On 2018-06-02 13:07, Richard Brown wrote:
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
I see you didn't catch the intended irony :-) I said "once upon a time", ie, long ago. At a time when /boot was needed. It was just an example of "this size is big enough", proven wrong later. Not to be taken as "use /boot separate partition", but as "50 GB is ample enough for '/'". Well, it is now... -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)