Hard Drive Partition Scheme

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Overview

Unless you have a reason for doing otherwise, we recommend that you create the following partitions for Amahi Fedora based systems:

  • swap
  • /boot
  • /home
  • /

Swap (at least 256 MB)

Swap partitions support virtual memory: data is written to a swap partition when there is not enough RAM to store the data your system is processing.

The following table provides the recommended size of a swap partition depending on the amount of RAM in your system.

System RAM Recommended swap space
< 2GB 2 times the amount of RAM
> 2GB – 8GB Equal to the amount of RAM
> 8GB – 64GB 0.5 times the amount of RAM
> 64GB 4GB of swap space

/boot (500 MB)

The partition mounted on /boot contains the operating system kernel (which allows your system to boot Fedora), along with files used during the bootstrap process. For most users, a 500 MB boot partition is sufficient.

/home (at least 1GB)

To store user data separately from system data, create a dedicated partition within a volume group for the /home directory. This will enable you to upgrade or reinstall Fedora without erasing user data files.

/ (ALL remaining space)

This is where / (the root directory) is located. In this setup, all files (except those stored in /boot) are on the root partition. It's best that ALL remaining space be allocated to this partition.

NOTE: Also the default location of the Greyhole Landing Zone (/var/hda/files).


Reference: Fedora Recommended Partitioning Scheme