[Discuss] Seeking opinions on drive partitioning

[malassimilation at gmail.com (E. William Horne)]

Benjamin, thanks for the info. I'd appreciate a little extra info, so 
please fill me in on a couple of items:

On 6/17/2022 10:24 PM, Benjamin Kallus wrote:
> 256 MB EFI partition, 128 GB rootfs, a little swap, and the rest as a home partition. Never used to use a dedicated home partition, but now that I've started I'm not going back.

What partition type number is used for EFI? The fdisk list on my Ubuntu 
machine shows "ef? EFI (FAT-12/16/" - is that the one?

Do you favor formatting with a Master Boot Record, or UUID? What's the 
advantage of UUID?

The machine I'll use tops out at 4GB Ram, so I assume the swap partition 
would be set at the traditional 2X RAM, or 8 GB: do you recommend more? 
Less?

What are the advantages of a separate home partition?

Do you recommend EXT4 for the / and /home directories?

Again, my thanks.

Bill

> On Jun 17, 2022, at 6:56 PM, Bill Horne <malassimilation at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ?Thanks for reading this. I appreciate your time.
>
> I've been doing Spring Cleaning, and I came across a 2TB Western Digital drive that I got a while back.
>
> I'm going to put it in an older PC that will run Ubuntu, and use it for a backup server if SAMBA is still available. I have a mixed windoze/Linux environment, with very little content creation other than emails and occasional spreadsheets.
>
> Please tell me how you recommend I partition the drive.
>
> Bill
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