Another Ubuntu Question

[SeismicDojo]

Greetings, Tips and Toes.

 

I’m completely aware of Ubuntu’s robust tools. Creatively speaking, productivity and management. Whether the object to name is scientific, medical, and engineering.
I’ve come across various tools which are fulfilling albeit overwhelming. 

I have 4tb ssd including nvme, alongside 2tb hdd. I wish to install Linux alongside Windows primarily. For an educator, editor, or student.  Files and content secured, accessible and future-proof. Eventually I want to figure out how to make my system mobile and somewhat commercial.
 

I know websites are run off servers. Portable streaming can happen from ready-made platforms such as twitch. I’m just wondering hosting in general. If that’s even worth mentioning in the context of this question. How do you recommend me partition my Linux system? 
Does it even matter for my purposes on a home/mobile lan pc?

I don’t know anything about web development. I’m just interested in having all my projects saved for now. Commercializing anything is over the horizon and maybe not even worth telling anyone yet.

 

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Wish me safe travels across anything and everything Linus Tech Tips. 

[Sauron]

4 minutes ago, SeismicDojo said:

How do you recommend me partition my Linux system? 
Does it even matter for my purposes on a home/mobile lan pc?

It doesn't matter, use the defaults.

[SeismicDojo]

Great. It's just while I was doing some internet searches there were topics for swappiness, hibernation, /tmp /var /boot. Previously when I loaded the default configurations there was only a uefi and root partition. As I understand linux doesn't require much space at all. I'm not at all discouraged to be informed about this. Ill probably only just keep a separate /home folder.

[Master Disaster]

1 hour ago, SeismicDojo said:

I know websites are run off servers. Portable streaming can happen from ready-made platforms such as twitch. I’m just wondering hosting in general. If that’s even worth mentioning in the context of this question. How do you recommend me partition my Linux system?

 

1 hour ago, Sauron said:

It doesn't matter, use the defaults.

I would disagree with this ^^^

 

At this point there is only one good reason to not be using BTRFS on Linux and that's if you need per partition encryption (and even then, you can still do it as a LUKS container I believe).

 

The ability to create an instant system snapshot and have it show as a boot option in GRUB in case anything goes wrong blows EXT4 away and when you run Timeshift on top of that it gets even easier.

[Sauron]

14 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

The ability to create an instant system snapshot and have it show as a boot option in GRUB in case anything goes wrong blows EXT4 away and when you run Timeshift on top of that it gets even easier.

I suppose, but that's not really related to the use case - it's more of a general nice to have feature. In normal use I wouldn't expect a catastrophic failure that requires a recovery snapshot. The setup process is also quite a bit more involved so I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to a beginner.

[Master Disaster]

7 minutes ago, Sauron said:

I suppose, but that's not really related to the use case - it's more of a general nice to have feature. In normal use I wouldn't expect a catastrophic failure that requires a recovery snapshot. The setup process is also quite a bit more involved so I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to a beginner.

I'm not 100% sure this is true but I believe modern Ubuntu creates a sane set of subvolumes by default with / & /home being separated out into /@ and /@home.

 

I still don't understand why none of the distros offer the ability to manage SVs during setup, its probably a calamares issues, right?

[Sauron]

3 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

I still don't understand why none of the distros offer the ability to manage SVs during setup, its probably a calamares issues, right?

Either that or a deliberate choice to make it simpler for new users.

[SeismicDojo]

Hi, thank you. I like using some of the tools Linux has to offer. Good to know you’ve taken care of users like me.