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I only have three partitions, all ext4:
/dev/sda1
mounted as/
- if necessary I wipe it out, reinstall my junk and call it a day. The only non-default things there are a few/etc
files but I got a manual backup of the ones that matter. It's in the SSD to access is really fast./dev/sdb1
mounted as/home
- that's my precious, for files that are personal and/or impossible to replace. Kept as small as possible so I can mirror it into a USB stick. It's in the HDD, right at the start so access is fast./dev/sdb2
mounted as/storage
- originally I created this partition to bulk store my anime series, music, etc. so I could broadcast them through SMB across my house. If I lose those files I'll probably be pissed, but they can be recovered with some sweat, blood, and torrents. Access speed is not that big of a concern for those files.I'm actually considering to create a fourth partition. See, the
/storage
partition has 1.6 TB, so I created a/storage/binarios
subdir in it so I can install a few programs (mostly games)... that's just/opt
reinvented poorly, might as well promote it to its own partition.