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| At the beginning of the system installation process you'll be asked to decide whether you prefer a regular partitioning scheme or a custom one. | At the beginning of the system installation process you'll be asked to decide whether you prefer a regular partitioning scheme or a custom one. | ||
| - | Choosing the regular partitioning is perfectly OK and will "simply" create one big partition that will contain all of your system's directories. | + | Choosing the default partitioning is perfectly OK and will "simply" create one big partition that will contain all of your system's files, as well as all the documents you'll create. |
| That said, there are many considerations that might push you to choose a custom partitioning scheme, reading this article might open your eyes to the interest that may be to partition your hard drive. | That said, there are many considerations that might push you to choose a custom partitioning scheme, reading this article might open your eyes to the interest that may be to partition your hard drive. | ||
| [[http://content.hccfl.edu/faculty/wayne_pollock/AUnix1/Partitioning.htm]]\\ | [[http://content.hccfl.edu/faculty/wayne_pollock/AUnix1/Partitioning.htm]]\\ | ||
| - | Also, when time comes to think about backups, your partitioning scheme could make a difference in the options you may have in your backup policy. To learn more about the subject, please consult the [[applications:backup|Backup]] page before making a decision. | + | Also, when time comes to think about backups, your partitioning scheme could make a difference in the options you may have regarding your backup policy. To learn more about the subject, please consult the [[applications:backup|Backup]] page before making a decision. |
| - | ===== Partition Sizes ===== | + | ===== Basic Partitioning ===== |
| + | In case you "simply" want to grant yourself the option to separate the system files from your personal documents (translate this to: any user's created document), a basic custom partitioning scheme would be to create a separated "/home" partition. | ||
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| + | As discussed below, the effective space reserved for the "system", or "/", partition and the one reserved for your "/home" partition cannot be determined absolutely. It all depends on the available space on your hard disk drive and the type of work you intend to execute on the machine. It is generally called your own "use case". | ||
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| + | If you still want an indication of the volumes to be allocated, consider that about 50GiB is probably a minimum for your system, outside of the "/home" partition that could then use the rest of the available space on your hard drive. | ||
| + | ===== Custom Partitions Sizes ===== | ||
| First of all let's state it clearly: | First of all let's state it clearly: | ||
| > **There is no such thing as the perfect partitioning scheme** | > **There is no such thing as the perfect partitioning scheme** | ||
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| I simply hope that this introduction to the subject gave you sufficient insight to allow you to make an educated decision on the partition scheme that would best fit your particular hardware and use case. | I simply hope that this introduction to the subject gave you sufficient insight to allow you to make an educated decision on the partition scheme that would best fit your particular hardware and use case. | ||
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| + | ===== My Final Partition Scheme ===== | ||
| + | Well, if of any interest after all this, my final partition scheme (for a 250GB SSD) is as follow: | ||
| + | {{ :install:gparted-ssd-partitionning.png?direct&200 |}} | ||
