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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What are the best practices to partition a linux system with? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

            
              500mb-600mb fat32 /boot partition
40gb - 100gb ext4 or btrfs / partition (if you know you're gonna install a lot of software, go bigger)
1x - 2x ram as swap
rest of disk as ext4 /home partition

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Why not BRTFS for the /home partition?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't had swap since I started using 32GB of ram and I've been fine. Might be worthwhile to use LVM for a more adjustable partitioning just in case. I made the mistake of making root 50G and I've been fighting with it for a while.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

swap is there so u can hibernate rather than shutdown

[–] devfuuu 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, 32g is barely enough for what I do daily at work, so I have similar amount of ram combined with similar amount of swap file so I can safely hibernate even when the ram is full.

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