Subj : Re: Installing Debian
To   : Avon
From : Zip
Date : Sun Sep 20 2020 11:13:20

Hello Avon!

On 20 Sep 2020, Avon said the following...
 Av> I am wondering what to do for the HDD partitioning and what size to set
 Av> things like home and var and temp and ??  and if to use LVM? or other

I would say enable LVM in any case -- that way you can add more disks later on
and assign the space (either a whole device = disk, or parts of it =
partitions) to one or more volume groups, which then house the logical
volumes (which in turn contain the file systems).

LVM makes it easy to assign more space to a certain logical volume (file
system) if you don't know beforehand how much space it should have/needs.

But... For a rather large drive and the assumption that you don't have local
users filling up their home directories to a degree that the entire disk gets
filled up, I would say go for one logical volume with one file system (/) on
it. That way you won't have to resize logical volumes all the time during
setup.

But it depends on how much control you want of the file systems, e.g.
the /var file system for logs. (But most software isn't happy = ceases to
function if they can't write their logs, so it would be more of an indicator
that something logs way too much or has gone bonkers if the log file system
fills up...)

Best regards
Zip

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