Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel installation help
See Magic Banana's answer on this same topic: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-installation-help#comment-17364
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel installation help
This /storage mount point is a good idea. I do something different: I have a /home/library directory, where I put all my books, musics and movies, sorted not by file type, but in categories like art, politics, computing and so on. In my user directory I have office things, like e-mails, temporary downloads etc. Note that the number of primary partitions is limited to 4 (or 3 primary and 1 extended), so you should make at least one of the partitions extended. That's true if you are using MBR, but not if you are using GPT, which is much better. Quoting myself [https://trisquel.info/en/forum/full-disk-encryption-multiple-partitions#comment-15548 here]: 1. You could use GPT instead of MBR; an advantage is that you don't need extended partitions, another is the CRC32 integrity-check mechanism; see: [https://duckduckgo.com/GUID_Partition_Table] [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GUID_Partition_Table] (Trisquel has gdisk and GRUB 2 in its repos)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel installation help
It's a shame GRUB-legacy doesn't support GPT as that is what Parabola offers by default, so if you intend to use Parabola and want everything to just work after installation it's best to create extended partitions :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel installation help
It really depends on what you intend to do with your system.If you'll install a *lot* of applications and games etc, then go with this / root partition ~25gb /home home partition rest of it if you just use your computer for daily work, 15gb is more than enough for the root partition ( / ) . For the swap, it should always be more than your RAM. If you have less than 1gb, add 1gb to it and that'll be your swap. If you havearound 2gb, double it. If you have 4gb or more, add 1gb to it. If you have something colossal like 16gb or something, you better have something like a 20gb swap :P Please ask if you have any problems.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel installation help
Regarding swap, I've heard this advice before, but it's never made sense to me. Applications use swap when they run out of RAM, right? If that's the case, then shouldn't you need less swap if you have more RAM?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel installation help
If you wish to install a different distro in the future in addition to Trisquel (e.g. Parabola) it is best to make a small home directory, as the home directory also stores application settings which might not work if you use a different version of installed packages (or the same version packaged for a different distro) as the settings might be stored in a different path or new package versions might not be compatible with setting files from older package versions. I would recomment something like this: /swap - up to 2 GB /root - up to 15 GB (unless you plan on installing lots of desktop environmanets and large games in which case maybe 20 GB would be better). /home - up to 10 GB (so you can also store email for offline use) /storage (for movies, music etc) - the rest. This partition can be split in the future (e.g. via GParted) if you want to install another distro as well. Note that the number of primary partitions is limited to 4 (or 3 primary and 1 extended), so it might be preferable to make at least one of the partitions extended.
