Partition size advice needed for release 19

[Member roland]

Dear friends,

Having recently completed a new PC build and moved up from release 17 to 19, I find the partition definitions in the installer are changed and a new element is now asked for, the Root partition. In the first instance I made a guess at 10gb for this as the installer warns that 3.5gb is a recommended minimum size. But not knowing exactly what is to be stored here (antiX in its entirity?) nor temporary file space required I do not want to make a mistake here that may be a nuisance to put right later on. Can anyone make suggestions for this partition size please? I wish to have a separate $home partition as it makes good sense. Should I wish to use encryprion will separation of root and $home facilitate this? Has anyone any observations to make about encryption, such as what are the risks and performance impact if any? Thanks for all responses in advance.

[Member Dzhigit]

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AFAIK, if you are making a separate home partition, the root partition will have all files outside of /home, which is everything in / minus /home, including /bin, /sbin, /usr, /etc.

[Member sybok]

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Hi,

1) I usually have 4 partitions:
/ = root
/data = another partition where I move most of the large stuff from ‘/home’, e.g. movies, music etc. <– easy to share with other Linux installations
/home = large enough to enable download/save of large files
swap (advised to have one for each Linux installation)
2) Partition sizes:
The size of ‘/’ partition depends on what you plan to do with your antiX.
Do you plan to install a lot of and/or large additional software/programs?
My home installation has 20 GB and 11 GB are already used up and I don’t think I’ve installed that many programs but rather large ones (e.g. gimp, chromium, callibre and some others).
3) If all fails, you can re-size:
In case you find out that the sizes (in installed system) do not suit you, it is possible to boot from live USB/CD/DVD and re-size the partitions of your installation.
This is a potentially risky operation (my live-USB Linux froze and messed up the partitions being processed), advised not to do without backup!

Hope that helps.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by sybok. Reason: Item 3) stated in a clearer way

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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I think if you go to the upgrade thread. I mention in during my chromebook upgrade and then a clean re-install.
How much GB a virgin reinstall takes up. Mine was full 64 bit iso.

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/upgrading-antix-17-to-antix-19/page/2/

This is a long in the tooth install on this IBM T430 . Install is

harry@biker:~
$ inxi -F
System:
  Host: biker Kernel: 4.9.193-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: IceWM 1.9.2 
  Distro: antiX-19_x64-full Marielle Franco 16 October 2019 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 2347DS2 v: ThinkPad T430 
  serial: <root required> 
  Mobo: LENOVO model: 2347DS2 serial: <root required> UEFI [Legacy]: LENOVO 
  v: G1ET41WW (1.16 ) date: 05/25/2012 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 13.8 Wh condition: 13.8/56.2 Wh (25%) 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-3320M bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  Speed: 2454 MHz min/max: 1200/3300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2454 2: 2235 
  3: 2110 4: 2430 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1600x900~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile v: 4.2 Mesa 18.3.6 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio 
  driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.193-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network driver: e1000e 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:21:cc:d0:5f:88 
  Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 60:67:20:95:09:dc 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 47.58 GiB (10.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST500LT012-1DG142 size: 465.76 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 19.10 GiB used: 5.41 GiB (28.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
  ID-2: /home size: 433.48 GiB used: 42.17 GiB (9.7%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/sda2 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 4.82 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 3640 
Info:
  Processes: 188 Uptime: 3h 10m Memory: 15.47 GiB used: 1.15 GiB (7.4%) 
  Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.36 

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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rokytnji wrote:

Upgrading antiX-17 to antiX-19

— https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/upgrading-antix-17-to-antix-19/
is a very useful thread for those upgrading from antiX-17 to antiX-19, and there are probably a few details in the thread that might work for other incremental updates or upgrades between antiX versions, though not every point will apply to every release, a few of them are specific to this particular upgrade.

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[Moderator christophe]

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I like roky’s setup for a fresh install.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by christophe.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by christophe.

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[Member fatmac]

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For my use, just a user, internet, music, videos, photos, etc, I have a root (/) of about double the actual installed size, I only add a few extras normally, so plenty of room – if I expect to do some heavy processing, like remastering/rebuilding an .iso file, I may add some swap, but normally don’t bother – the rest becomes my /home directory.

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