How Do You Partition Your Drives - Desktop Customization & Workflow

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movq movq Offline | 28-09-2020, 12:15 PM | #10
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(28-09-2020, 11:54 AM)z3bra Wrote: I like to keep tmpfs partitions around, so I'm sure that I don't pile things up in /tmp or ~/tmp. If I must keep something, then I must move it somewhere. It helps keeping things clean.

Yes, this is great. I do a tremendous amount of stuff in /tmp, which is a tmpfs. Reboot, everything clean.

My machines do BIOS boot and my main disk is trivial:
Code:
$ lsblk /dev/sdc
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdc      8:32   0 238.5G  0 disk
└─sdc1   8:33   0 238.5G  0 part /
I'm with mort here. I ran out of space way too often. Just let me use my disk, dammit! :-)

230 GB isn't that much anymore, so I added another disk later (left some room to be able to play with fancy file systems):
Code:
$ lsblk /dev/sdb
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdb      8:16   0 931.5G  0 disk
└─sdb1   8:17   0   450G  0 part /mnt/secondhdd

Again, just one partition. In that directory are some subdirectories which are bind mounted to places like my /home:
Code:
$ grep bind /etc/fstab
/mnt/secondhdd/void/gfx    /home/void/gfx    none  bind,auto  0  0
/mnt/secondhdd/void/VMs    /home/void/VMs    none  bind,auto  0  0
/mnt/secondhdd/void/music  /home/void/music  none  bind,auto  0  0
...
Those bind mounts are great, because ~/VMs, ~/gfx, and the others can use all the available space. I don't have to decide in advance that ~/gfx gets ~100 GB and ~/VMs gets 50 GB, and so on. (Poor man's btrfs, kind of.)

My laptop uses the same setup, just everything encrypted.


Messages In This Thread
How Do You Partition Your Drives - by cjm - 07-08-2014, 05:39 PM
RE: How Do You Partition Your Drives - by kirby - 08-08-2014, 04:59 AM
RE: How Do You Partition Your Drives - by xero - 08-08-2014, 11:19 AM
RE: How Do You Partition Your Drives - by pvtmert - 09-08-2014, 09:32 AM
RE: How Do You Partition Your Drives - by venam - 28-09-2020, 02:10 AM
RE: How Do You Partition Your Drives - by mort - 28-09-2020, 04:03 AM
RE: How Do You Partition Your Drives - by freem - 28-09-2020, 06:56 AM
RE: How Do You Partition Your Drives - by z3bra - 28-09-2020, 11:54 AM
RE: How Do You Partition Your Drives - by movq - 28-09-2020, 12:15 PM
RE: How Do You Partition Your Drives - by mcol - 01-10-2020, 05:09 PM

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