On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 12:10 PM bruce <badouglas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi.
Doing some research into how devs are using their dev systems in terms
of the actual layout/partition of the drives. I've seen plenty of
articles, figured I'd ask here as well.
If you have an interested, I'd appreciate your thoughts.
1) How is your drive/system laid out regarding your paritions?
SSDs are getting cheaper, but not cheap enough for mass storage for me so currently:
500GB M.2 NVMe boot/system drive
* /boot
* /boot/efi
* / and /var subvolumes sharing remaining space
* /home 3TB spinning disk
I like having /var as a separate volume because when it was EXT4 I could do a reinstall and format / without losing data in /var. I setup using subvolumes this time before I realized that was no longer possible. I guess it could make snapshots easier though...
2) Do you have multiple drives (SSD/Sata)?
Yup
3) Is OS on one drive, apps/data on the other?
Hybrid depending on what you consider data, but /home definitely.
4) Do you switch between OS(es)?
Not on my desktop. If I need windows I run it in Gnome Boxes, I do dual boot my laptop.
5) What's your "backup" process/strategy?
I use BackupPC (I also maintain the package) to backup /home and /etc on most of the computers in the house. I have it on a CentOS 8 Stream box in the closet w/ UPS.
6) What's your "update" strategy(ies)?
I haven't had many issues upgrading over the last several releases but now that I'm on btrfs I could take a snapshot, upgrade, and if there's a major problem revert back to the snapshot.
I'm looking to get a new system
AMD/ryzen -8core 16G 256G SSD - 1TBSata
That should work fine but depending on your budget, 500GB SSDs seem to be the sweet spot if you're going with a hybrid SSD/spinning disk combo. For laptops I just usually opt for a 1TB SSD.
Thanks,
Richard
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