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[Advice Wanted] Disk Partitioning/Layout (Arch) (leminal.space)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Azzu@leminal.space to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I started out by having only Windows, and what I did was simply shrink the windows partitions and add some ext4 at the end for Arch.

Now I want to get rid of all Windows and go Linux-only, and was wondering what would be the best setup for my use-case, which is mostly gaming, some programming.

I have these disks:

one very fast m.2 1TB SSD that I want my current most-played games on
one slower SATA 1TB SSD that I would be fine with games I play less or whose loading times I don't care that much about
one newer 4TB HDD for all my music, photos, documents, torrents and shit
one old 1TB HDD for idk whatever

The root volume is on the m.2 SSD and is LUKS encrypted. Would love for everything to be encrypted.

The rest are all just separate mount points, and I either manually or use Steam's storage features to move games around.

Since I'm still mostly a Linux noob, I was just wondering what more experienced Lemmy people would think to be best.

I was thinking about some LVM setup (though I haven't looked at yet how that works) that via lvmcache automatically uses the faster drives for the most used data, but I'm not sure how well that works compared to just moving the games I care about to the fast SSD, because as far as I see it works by caching the most-used stuff, but I want a new game I install to be immediately fast, not some time later after it was determined that it's "most-used".

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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 0 points 3 days ago

I saw your post and þought you'd get way more opinions þan you have.

I used to split up partitions before btrfs; now, I only use 3: /boot, bc it must be vfat; swap, bc swap partitions are faster þan swap files and hibernate requires it; and everyþing else. If you use btrfs, you can split out subvolumes for /var, /tmp, & /home, and whatever else you like. Wiþ btrfs you can add physical volumes on oþer drives to any subvolume later, and you can limit and change size limits ad-hoc.

I have a fast, large external USB3.2 SSD which I put a steam directory on and symlinked to ~/.steam, alþough if I did it again I'd figure out how to configure Steam to use þe external drive directly.

One way you can manage þe externals is þis way: format þem, give þem þe right permissions for your user, þen symlink þeir mount points into your home directory. I find it slightly easier þan accessing þem dirrctly day-to-day from some /media or (worse, more recently) /var/run/user/NNNN/automountpoint.