installation of opensuse 13.2 on a notebook - how to proceed

[unleash_it]

hello and good day dear joomla-experts,

hope everything is fine at your site.

today i have a non-typical question - nothing regarding joomla, but regarding linux.


i want to install a new opensuse linux on a notebook. i want to upgrade is the following:

this one: Akoya P 6512 15" OpenSuse 13.1: AMD Athlon X2 P320, 2,10 GHz, 4 GB 320 GB hdd-drive


what is wanted:
i want to do a total fresh installation
i want to have not tooo much partitions!
i only want to run opensuse 13.2
i want to have some kind of native linux partitions - such as ext 4 - #
.
btw: what if i want to do the whole setup of the new hdd with LUKS - the security-system.

can i do this with

a. gparted or
b. the installation-DVD of the new opensuse linux version 13.2



and last but not least: what do you suggest - should go with the new default BTRFS file system?!?

well to begin with the beginning: i applied the following commands

a. lsblk

b. fdisk -l


see the results,,,, ;

linux-c5sz:/home/martin # lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 465,8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 4G 0 part [SWAP]
├─sda2 8:2 0 102M 0 part
├─sda4 8:4 0 1K 0 part
├─sda5 8:5 0 2G 0 part
├─sda6 8:6 0 4G 0 part
├─sda7 8:7 0 10G 0 part
├─sda8 8:8 0 20G 0 part /
└─sda9 8:9 0 389,6G 0 part /home
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom

and the following fdisk -l

linux-c5sz:/home/martin # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units = Sektoren of 1 * 512 = 512 byte
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xb8fa3ecd

Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sda1 63 8385929 4192933+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 8385930 8594774 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 * 8803620 976768064 483982222+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 8803683 12996584 2096451 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 12996648 21382514 4192933+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 21382578 42347339 10482381 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 117821440 159766527 20972544 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 159768576 976766975 408499200 83 Linux
linux-c5sz:/home/martin #

subsequently the questions; which partition logic should i choose.

what is wanted: i want to have not tooo much partitions!
i only want to run opensuse 13.2

note: i want to erase all the existing partition logic /(that is currently existing)
i do this with Gparted.

which partitions should i take?
which file system ?

i am curious to get to know your ideas, dear joomla-experts

[Tonie]

For the file system type I normally boringly go with the file system that is installed by default. In the case of OpenSuse 13.2 that is Btrfs for the root partition and XFS for the home partition. Partitioning normally depends on which functionality you want and need on your laptop.

A lot of times I just go with the /, /boot, and /home paritions. I keep all data on /home as much as possible, for example I change the webserver root directory and permissions to my home directory. For the things that are not in /home I create a script that backups all that data (mysql database, config files) to my home directory as well. When I need a new installation, I just have to copy or keep /home and will be up and running quite fast again.

When you dont reroute all data to your home directory, one of the /var directories is good for partitioning as well (webserver home directory, databases, etc.).