jamesb Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 I'm deciding on the final partition scheme for the Beast, and have come up with the following. Feedback more than welcome, as usually I just stick with the defaults. HDs /dev/sda - 120GB SSD /dev/sdb - 1TB HDD /dev/sdc - 2TB HDD (RAID1) /boot - /dev/sda0 (512MB) swap - /dev/sda2 (48GB) for hibernation / - /dev/sda1 (72GB) /game - /dev/sdb (1TB) /home - /dev/sdc1 (2TB) With /tmp using tmpfs (8GB) Anything I'm missing/have got wrong/could do better?
unixman_again Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 How much RAM do you have? I've found swap = RAM + 25% a good rule of thumb. It used to be RAM + RAM + 50% but now you don't really need anything other than swap = RAM. I like a bit extra although I've yet to see my box actually use any swap even when I've got loads running. 1
jamesb Posted July 21, 2015 Author Posted July 21, 2015 48GB of RAM, so I don't really see the need to have anything extra in swap. The only reason I want a swap file at all (and on the SSD in particular) is for faster hibernation. I could be missing something though - can you see a need for a swap file beyond hibernation in that setup?
unixman_again Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 With that much RAM, probably not. I've got 4GB in mine and as I said, I've never seen it use swap. Here's some info on swap https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq 1
powdarrmonkey Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 LVM. Start the volumes small and grow them as needed, much easier than trying to shrink stuff later.
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