If you have less than 8GB RAM, you should do a swap partition. If you have more RAM than that, you probably don't need it. I guess it depends on what you're doing.
What is the perfect and ultimate parition and folder structure?
Hunter Scott
Carson Garcia
How do you structure storage of Zig Forums-related files (such as OS images, updates and extensions, hardware drivers, software installation packages, documentation, PDFs/ebooks, instructional videos/lectures, documentaries, website mirrors etc. etc.)? It seems quite difficult to come up with a structure that is intuitive, consistent, and non-overlapping.
Kevin Sanchez
That's one of the goals of the Lisp OS.
metamodular.com
Hunter Ross
~/isos
?
They're all in /lib/modules
Handled by package manager.
documentation,
~/Documents/documentation/{subdirectories}
~/Documents/ebooks
~/Videos/lectures
~/Videos/documentaries
Do you have a lot of those? Why?
Sounds like you've got Windows™ Problems.
Samuel Perez
It's data which shouldn't be bound to a specific computer, but rather reside on a NAS or something where it can be accessed from many computers (possibly with different operating systems). Your general approach looks like "I have just this one computer which runs Linux and I care about nothing else".
As per the above, putting a data collection not entirely tied to a specific OS or a specific computer into a specific user's home directory is not a good idea, it should be a separate data-only filesystem. Apart from that, do you put all ISOs together (no matter if Microsoft, Linux, BSD etc.)? Or rather put different things which all belong to a specific OS (ISOs, updates, drivers, program binaries/sources, documentation) together?
See above. There's much more to an OS than just its ISO image (look at mdgx.com
I'm not talking about installed drivers, but about archived driver installation packages. Do you group drivers primarily by hardware, or by OS, or yet differently? Do you keep them with OS-related files (see above), or rather with hardware-related files, or separately?
Not everyone wants to keep redowloading software over and over again and be at the complete mercy of a package manager, internet connection and online repository.
~/Videos/documentaries
It's not really that trivial, partly for reasons cited above, and partly because it might be more convenient to store docs/books/videos etc. together with other files on the specific *subject* they concern.
The web in not eternal and online archives like the wayback machine are not perfect. "a lot" is relative, but it's not a bad idea to archive websites (or parts of them) you consider of special value.
Not really, much rather it's about a much more general, OS-agnostic and machine-agnostic approach to organizing storage. Contrarily, your replies seem reek of Loonix fanboyism, and at the end of the day it's hard to take a fanboy seriously.
Nolan Morgan
everything goes in / and is symlinked elsewhere
Nolan Phillips
That's because people tend to not have mechanical drives inside their PC anymore
Mason Edwards
>implying HDDs in the 2020s will go the way optical went in the 2010s, 3.5 floppies went in the 2000s, 5.25 floppies went in the 1990s, and punchcards went in the 1980s
Hmmmm
Oliver Bennett
Make all the directory structures and use symlinks, or stop being a fucking weirdo autist and leave everything in a vague folder like "books" like everyone else. There's a reason music fans sort by album or atist and not genre
John Phillips
4. ELITE LEVEL; same as advanced, except CP and family are the same folder.