Hello,
I believe the 'two-times-RAM' rule does not hold anymore if you have
4GB RAM or more.
Here is my layout, I have just 4GB RAM ;)
Workstation Partition Layout
--------------------------------------------------
sda HDD 114499MB
sda1 PRI /boot ext4 500MB
sda2 PVM 113997MB
vg_station LVM 113984MB
lv_root / ext4 10016MB
lv_var /var ext4 4000MB
lv_opt /opt ext4 6016MB
lv_local /usr/local ext4 4000MB
lv_home /home ext4 512MB
lv_tmp /tmp ext4 1024MB
lv_swap swap 2016MB
/var/lib/apache
/var/lib/mysql
/var/lib/postgresql
--------------------------------------------------
The rest of the HDD is reserved for expanding when needed.
You have to plan your /home and /tmp sizes if you do audio/video working...
mine is just a development workstation.
Regards
2012/9/24 Alan Evans <ame.fedora@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hello, insightful users!
>
> I finally got a new desktop system for my home office, so I get to
> tinker with a completely fresh install.
>
> My query is how to best divide the storage. I will be installing the
> system on SSD, and I tentatively decided to put swap, /home, /var, and
> /tmp directories on a separate, conventional hard drive on the
> assumption that this is where most of the rapidly changing data (and
> most of the disk writes) would be.
>
> I put swap in it's own partition, sized by the old two-times-RAM
> (24GB, in my case -- woohoo!) rule of thumb. Not even sure if that
> rule still applies.
>
> The rest of the 2TB spindle is configured LVM, and in that reside the
> /home, /tmp, and /var directories. In my ignorance, I guessed 50GB for
> /var and 100GB for /tmp, and the rest for /home. (I do a lot of audio
> and video work, so I figured /tmp might be used heavily.)
>
> Does that arrangement sound sensible? Does anybody have a contrary
> opinion about how it should be divided? Or better: is there a way to
> make the division between /home, /tmp, and /var more fluid?
>
> -Alan
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