Partition question

[klas]

[Moderator note: this post was originally posted as a response to the long finished [SOLVED] How to get the best partition scheme ?. Due to that topic's age, I moved this post and the one reply it had received at that time to a new thread. -Hu]

I am planning to install gentoo on this partition

fat32 400 MB /boot
ext4 50 GB /
ext4 200 GB /home
swap 4 GB swap

Is that good ?

[HungGarTiger]

[The Doctor]

128 mb is more than sufficient for /boot. Most of the time I use 128 mb. fat32 suggests you have already looked into the requirements for UEFI. I suggest using no boot loader for simplicity. That said, using 1 Gib wouldn't be particularly wasteful given the cost of space these days.

Also, that partition should be 384 Mib due to the way that blocks are allocated. The tools should take care of that for you, but be aware that the file system is based on a block size.

50 GiB is fine for /, although you should consider separating /var to prevent log spam.

Typically swap should be either twice your ram or slightly bigger depending on your intended application. If you have a low ram machine double the ram. If you want to hibernate swap must be at least equal to ram. If you have an insane amount of ram than no swap is needed at all. 4 GiB is a very odd number here.

Of course, /home is generally whatever is left and how much you need depends entirely on how much data you need to store. You won't be making minecraft videos for YouTube with only 200 GiB available, but then without a crystal ball I can't really guess at what you will be doing. The answer to that question is between the keyboard and the chair.
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[pr0cesor]

Hey,

As a new gentoo user, this is how I partitioned my disk few weeks ago

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 26.2MB 25.2MB grub bios_grub
2 27.3MB 1076MB 1049MB ext2 boot
3 1077MB 9465MB 8389MB linux-swap(v1) swap
4 9467MB 500GB 491GB ext4 root

Basically its 25MB grub - 1GB boot - 8GB swap and the rest of my disk size as root which is 491GB. Maybe not the best partition by my gentoo works like a charm.
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[NeddySeagoon]

pr0cesor,

Its too late now but bios_grub takes the place of the 'wasted space' between the MBR and the start of the first partition on MBR installs.
With a GPT disk lable, this space does not exist. Grub still needs some (unformatted) space for itself, hence the bios_grub partition.
Its not yours, you don't mount it, if you make a filesystem there, installing grub will destroy it but that's OK.

2Mb is plenty.
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[klas]