Just used the default for one big partition. I used to do tedious partition configurations, but it always ended up biting me down the road more than helping. This drive is for the OS, games, and working files. I have a 16TB NAS that holds anything worth saving, so if I need to nuke the whole thing and do a reinstall, all I really end up doing is downloading a bunch of Steam games again.

~500 MB for /boot and the rest is LUKS-encrypted btrfs

Defaults are usually fine for most users. People who know they are going to distro hop or need to move data later should have a separate /home, but that’s about it until you get into special purpose installs.

• 550MiB /boot (also used as esp)
• Rest for / (btrfs)
• Subvols for /home, /var/log, /var/cache, /.snapshots (snapper snaps), /swap

Just recently repartitioned my MacBook:

1 GB for EFI (vfat)

2 GB for /boot (ext4)

11 GB for swap

224 GB for / (bcachefs)

Grub cannot load a kernel off bcachefs so I need ext4 to bridge the gap. Once the kernel is loaded, it has no problem using bcachefs as root.

This is a laptop. On a desktop that can handle more drives, I would split /home onto a drive of its own.

I just chose the automatic partition thingy ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Two separate EFI boot Partitions if you dual boot. Its not worth letting Windows know about linux. Linux chainloads to Windows boot.

In my first install I had different home and root partitions. That was a big mistake. Once set, you cannot resize them properly and you are fucked if they are not perfect for your need. In my case the root partition got to small. After some time I just reinstalled with a single partition and would do that again.

I’ve been using Linux for over a quarter of a century. Initially I spent hours attempting to come up with the best partitioning scheme but these days I pick LVM and use the defaults.

If I run out of space, I add a drive (or grow the virtual one) and grow the filesystem into the extra space.

Sometimes I need temporary space and use sshfs to mount a directory from another machine.

In other words, today you have infinite options to adjust according to need, partition schemes are not nearly as important.

Even swap space can live as a file on a normal partition if required.

That said. If you have specific use cases, check what’s required. Specifically because different uses need different attributes, it pays to check.

save 80gb for root, sone swap (if not on an ssd) rest for /home. that way reinstalling or switching has minimal risk of losing my /home

For Laptops:

• 500 MB - /boot/efi
• 1 GB /boot ext2
• X GB for / with Luks2 encrypted f2fs

And don’t forget: GPT not MBR.

For my desktop, I have two disks. One is root, one is home. They are single BTRFS filesystems with automated snapshots, compressions, and a few subvolumes. Works great.

For a laptop, similar but with only a single disk/partition and FDE. Also works well.

I just use the automatic thingy on my distro so like:

• Esp: 2GB (Limine + btrfs snapshot booting)
• root: all the drive

I tend to just take the defaults when I’m deploying. I wouldn’t get any benefit of having home or tmp on a separate partition, but it’s nice that it’s an option.

• 180 MB /efi (if needed)
• 384 MB /boot (for LUKS compatibility)
• Remainder / (usually btrfs)