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My motherboard is a Asus am1l-a with a uefi bios. I have a 120 gb ssd and a 3tb hdd I plan on adding another 3tb hdd. I plan on installing Ubuntu as my main os and Arch as a secondary just for messing around with. This is primarily going to be a htpc and will store most of my music and movies. It will also be a small Minecraft server for at most four of my friends and I. My question is, what would you recommend as a partitioning scheme?

Jacob Guenther
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  1. All of the /home on HDD, OS on SSD
  2. At a minimum, split your / from your /home for your "production" OS (Ubuntu). If you want to split even more have a look at the FHS. 64GB /, 2TB /home
  3. One swap partition for both OSes (Minimum size = RAM, Max size=RAM*2)
  4. If Arch is to mess around with, 32GB /, 512 GB /home
  5. Yes, not all of your disk space is allocated: just keep that as 'spare' to move & extend existing partitions if needed. (or bcache the HDDs)
  6. Some other possibilities

Freebies you didn't ask for:

  1. If you plan on adding another 3TB drive: Don't use software RAID! It's prone to software and hardware errors so divide your MTBF by 2 for 1 OS and by 4 for 2 OSes
  2. If you plan to use hardware RAID: Don't use RAID0: divide your MTBF by 2 if you do.
  3. Make frequent system back-ups (You're definitely user type 4)
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