Consider this, both of your SSD's have a read/write speed. For gen3 nvme about 3,000mb/s give or take (that's what I have). If you put your /root directory on a partition of one disk, and the /home directory on the other disk potentially both could be reading/writing at the same time, combined read/write potential doubles. Will you notice this in normal use? meh, probably not. But it certainly can only be faster, no slower to do so.
Another thing I'm going to suggest you think about is creating separate ext4 partitions labeled "Documents" "Downloads" "Music" "Pictures" "Videos", then make fstab entries which mount them at the folders in your home folder with matching names at startup. Granted, this is especially useful if you have multiple Linux OS's installed, but even with one Linux it means you can wipe your OS and re-install without losing your files. You just edit fstab, reboot, and wa-la!! Your files are all there for you. In gparted it looks something like this. Mine is an extreme distro-hopping setup, lately I'm in Debian and have several Puppy Linux on the same parittion I'm playing with, but the other OS's can sit and wait for me as long as they need to. My partitions are way bigger than they need to be for the most part. If you decide to make partitions for your main file folders you won't need much for /home, and the only time I ever needed more than 40G for a Linux /root was when I downloaded something like 50G of software from Qt just to look at for a minute.
If you decide to do it, you would add something like this to your /etc/fstab file (using your UUID's found by entering <blkid> in terminal, and your username in place of ***)I will say that I've experimenting with additional partitions for /var /opt and so forth, but I found it difficult to determine what size to make them. If you like flatpak I think they install heavy in /var, a few apps use /opt. It's just difficult to determine how much, and for me there was no real advantage over leaving them in my /root directory. But there may be good reasons why you want those on separate partitions.
Another thing I'm going to suggest you think about is creating separate ext4 partitions labeled "Documents" "Downloads" "Music" "Pictures" "Videos", then make fstab entries which mount them at the folders in your home folder with matching names at startup. Granted, this is especially useful if you have multiple Linux OS's installed, but even with one Linux it means you can wipe your OS and re-install without losing your files. You just edit fstab, reboot, and wa-la!! Your files are all there for you. In gparted it looks something like this. Mine is an extreme distro-hopping setup, lately I'm in Debian and have several Puppy Linux on the same parittion I'm playing with, but the other OS's can sit and wait for me as long as they need to. My partitions are way bigger than they need to be for the most part. If you decide to make partitions for your main file folders you won't need much for /home, and the only time I ever needed more than 40G for a Linux /root was when I downloaded something like 50G of software from Qt just to look at for a minute.
If you decide to do it, you would add something like this to your /etc/fstab file (using your UUID's found by entering <blkid> in terminal, and your username in place of ***)
Code:
# DocumentsUUID=fd7bdaed-9e26-4235-b74c-150a79f28bf2 /home/***/Documents ext4 defaults 0 2# DownloadsUUID=02a1de0f-f46e-452a-ba9e-3d3214b99712 /home/***/Downloads ext4 defaults 0 2# MusicUUID=765f6dcd-b1ba-4087-b70a-5b875158a128 /home/***/Music ext4 defaults 0 2# PicturesUUID=82c6be07-3253-4411-8474-8e7499a3274b /home/***/Pictures ext4 defaults 0 2# VideosUUID=c351b67c-7ffd-4237-9e81-052030cedde3 /home/***/Videos ext4 defaults 0 2Statistics: Posted by trawglodyte — 2024-01-24 14:10
