Re: reInstalling my laptop
On 10/26/2014 04:43 AM, Jean-Marc wrote:
I will reinstall my laptop.
I have a question about partitioning.
I will use this setting:
/boot
swap
The rest under LVM (/, /var, /tmp, /home) ?
So, my question: /boot or not /boot ?
Jean-Marc <jean-marc@6jf.be>
P.S. I do not subscribe to the list; keep me in Cc:
I use the following for the machines in my SOHO, including my laptop:
unencrypted boot - 512 MB
encrypted swap - 512 MB, random password
encrypted root - 8 to 20 GB, depending upon use
Keeping the system drives small facilitates taking/ restoring images for
disaster recovery and experimentation/ learning.
My bulk data is on one machine running Samba.
If I want to put some bulk data on my laptop, I add another partition.
I used LVM for a while, but didn't find any benefit for my use-cases.
I used ZFS FUSE and ZFS on Linux (ZOL) for bulk data for a while. I was
intrigued by ZFS's checksum, RAID, and de-duplication features, but the
killer features turned out to be snapshots and replication. zfs-fuse is
an official Debian Apt package. ZOL is a LLNL project with good support
for 64-bit Debian (and others). ZOL requires more work (including
hand-rolled init and shutdown scripts), but is faster and has more
features than zfs-fuse.
HTH,
David
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