I've been thinking about this too. I had Centos and Fedora installed and had
given them the lion share of a 1 TB hd. Then I found Trisquel and gave it the
rest (about 130 GB). Now I'm thinking to start over.
I like Trisquel 7 very much and would use it by default most of the time. I
might do Fedora 22 and get the latest kernel. I was thinking about
preparing/reserving a portion of the hd to build a kernel on my own and see
how far I can get building everything from source. I could leave a portion
for a fourth option (maybe freebsd or openbsd).
I was thinking I would have a large /home partition and back it up on to an
external hd. I've never used back up software but I would like to create
something more permanent and secure than I usually do and locate all the data
that I want to keep from all the computers I have scattered around the house
and have it in one place backed up to the ext hd.
Question 1
Is this still relevant:
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch3.en.html#s3.2
Since I installed trisquel I have mostly installed the major apps that I
wanted and been tweaking so by now it appears that I have used up a quarter
of my 20 GB / directory and maybe less than 1 GB of my 108 GB /home
partition. I have 4 GB swap for 8 GB Ram and I have yet to see a swap file be
used (I think ever on any machine.) The stuff I do is not that intensive but
I would like to start gaming a little,
So if I reformat and reinstall maybe
Trisquel
10 GB / ........LVM
10 GB /usr .....xfs, ext3, ext4?
10 GB /var .....................""
2 GB /tmp ......................""
5 GB /opt ......................""
8 GB swap ...........swap
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45 GB total
OS 2 (same pattern)
10 GB /
10 GB /usr
10 GB /var
2 GB /tmp
5 GB /opt
8 GB swap (if it will let me, Grub in Centos or Fedora found the swap from
the other an insisted on using that on the second install)
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45 GB total
500 GB /home mounted in both OSes - to be backed up to the external hd
This way I am using less that 50 GB for each OS and can play with around 400
GB left over.
If the debian doc isn't relevant then KISS maybe rules and just go 35 GB /
and 8 GB swap.
Other Questions:
Does gaming create need for a bigger swap?
Anything else I should know or consider?
