• neo (he/him)@lemmy.comfysnug.space
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    1 year ago
    • 500mb-600mb fat32 /boot partition
    • 40gb - 100gb ext4 or btrfs / partition (if you know you’re gonna install a lot of software, go bigger)
    • 1x - 2x ram as swap
    • rest of disk as ext4 /home partition
  • Andrius Štikonas@lemmy.kde.social
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    1 year ago

    It really depends on your requirements…

    But a few useful points:

    1. Use GPT partition table and not MBR. Everything will be simpler, no need for extended/logical partitions.
    2. If you need to be able to do online (mounted) partition resizing, pick btrfs. Ext4 can only grow them online but not shrink.
    3. Make sure your partition boundaries are 1 MiB aligned.
    4. If you need more advanced setups, consider using LVM.