Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

[Anubhav Yadav <anubhav1691@gmail.com>]

Okay, I installed debian now, a perfect install with LVM.
Here is the output of df -H

Filesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs                   8.7G  330M  7.9G   5% /
udev                      11M     0   11M   0% /dev
tmpfs                    830M  754k  830M   1% /run
/dev/mapper/Debian-Root  8.7G  330M  7.9G   5% /
tmpfs                    5.3M     0  5.3M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                    1.7G     0  1.7G   0% /run/shm
/dev/mapper/Debian-Home  466G  427M  442G   1% /home
/dev/mapper/Debian-tmp    16G  174M   15G   2% /tmp
/dev/mapper/Debian-Usr    32G  2.8G   28G  10% /usr
/dev/mapper/Debian-Var    32G  461M   30G   2% /var

And this is what lvsan says
  ACTIVE            '/dev/Debian/Root' [8.19 GiB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/Debian/Usr' [29.80 GiB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/Debian/Var' [29.80 GiB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/Debian/tmp' [14.90 GiB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/Debian/Swap' [3.72 GiB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/Debian/Home' [440.52 GiB] inherit

Is there anything wrong with this partitioning scheme.

As Joel advised (thanks) I made a big 565 GB primary LVM partition.
and then created partitions as advised by Joel again.