Re: [Trisquel-users] I was wondering, if I did a full disk encryption,

[dguthrie]

In the Debian installer (the one on Trisquel network installer and in Debian  
installer disks), there is an option for setting it up automatically. This  
does not encrypt the /boot partition and since you are on Libreboot there is  
no reason not to encrypt boot partition. Basically, what it does is select  
partition sizes automatically. You can set it to put all in one partition  
("recommended for beginners", apparently), a separate /home partition, or a  
separate /home, /var, /usr (or similar) partitioning scheme. Personally, I  
think the last option is overkill. You should ideally just make a separate  
/home partition so that it is less likely that your data will be lost if root  
goes berserk. You should also make a partition for swap space if you are on a  
normal hard disk drive. If you are on an SSD I would not do this though  
because it reduces the life of it if swap is written to a lot.
Usually, on my 250GoB drive, I set up / to be 12-16GoB, Then /boot at 100MoB,  
then fill the rest with /home. I used to use a 1TB HDD, so would just have  
all the installed operating systems using a single 8GoB swap space (same size  
as RAM), and then 100GoB for /home on the main one and 16GoB for the other  
operating systems' /home partitions (that was back when I was always  
switching my OS).
TBH it's not really a big deal. Just partition sensibly and don't bother with  
/var, /usr, etc. It just becomes a headache!