If you have anything to point out to the way i have partitioned my hard
drive, any tip or recommendation, please do so!
You basically have a swap partition, an ext2 file system mounted on /boot
(what makes sense; I made the same choice) and then multiple partitions where
XFS file systems are mounted. I do not understand how this multiplicity
presents advantages over one single XFS file system mounted on / (I would, of
course, understand if different file systems were chosen). That may just be
my ignorance speaking but I only see a major drawback: because it is hard to
predict the required sizes, you will end up with full partitions, whereas
other ones will be almost empty. Using LVM, as teodorescup suggests, would
certainly help in resizing the partitions (notice that XFS partitions cannot
be shrunk!) but why attempting to fix a potential problem if you could simply
avoid it?
Assuming there is an advantage in multiplying the partitions (please, explain
me), the allowed spaces look wrong if the system used as a desktop. If it is
so, take a look at the occupation, on my laptop, of the various repertories
you list (and comments I have added after the '#' characters):
$ sudo du -hxs /boot /tmp /var /root /usr/local /usr /opt /home
29M /boot # One kernel only (you want 3-4 times more to easily revert to an
older kernel in case of problems with a brand new one).
72K /tmp # This might grow up to a few GB... but 18?! I would like to know
what kind of applications would need that much.
524M /var # Cleaning some DEB packages with 'apt-get autoclean'.
500K /root # I must have 'su' to root a few times but Trisquel's user are
invited to use 'sudo' and /root therefore remains empty.
252K /usr/local # Very far from the 6 GB but you may intend to place there
your own developments, do you?
4,6G /usr # You will much need more if you install applications that require
much space (such as games that come with fancy graphics, musics, etc.) but,
anyway, 32 GB looks a lot.
271M /opt # I have placed there a free applications I downloaded from the
Web (it is not in Trisquel's repository); my /opt would be totally empty
otherwise.
147G /home # /home grows and grows and grows ... It must definitely use the
whole remaining space once the sizes of the other partitions were defined.
To sum up the size choices that look weird to me (but again, you may have
special workload in mind): /tmp, /root, /usr/local and /opt appear a lot too
large; /var and /usr look too large (like in "they could be divided by 2").
The freed space would go to /home.
The choice of the XFS file system for partitions typically having small files
(like /tmp and /var, which typically have kB-large files) also looks weird to
me. I have always read is extremely efficient on large files but not on small
ones. Is this reputation ungrounded?
