Some help with Partitioning For Linux

[Guest Riptaz]

Hi,

 

I have the following set-up:

 

SSD 64GB

HDD1 1TB

HDD2 3TB

Ram 16GB

I've decided to use GPT for all along with UEFI and dual boot Windows 7 64 bit on the HDD.

Since i want Linux as my main system i've was thinking of the following split:

#ssd

/boot 300-500 mb

/ 20GB

/var 15GB #not sure if it's the right place for var but i think the SSD will survive

/home rest of the ssd

#Probably Ext4 for all tho i don't why some choose ext3 for boot, do i need a COW FS?

#No need for swap as far as i can see

#Not sure but do i need to have /usr in a separate partition?

#hdd1

C:\ NTFS 200-300GB

D:\ (/data on linux) NTFS rest of the HDD to be shared as Downloads etc.

#hdd2

Backup Drive - Weekly backup of /Home

 

I'm also considering pushing /tmp /var/spool /var/tmp and /var/log to Ram(tmpfs).

Since i'm still new at this what do think? I'm planning to run a few vm's and is mainly for personal\code development machine..

 

Thanks.

 

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