# about partition

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**Category:** SLED Install-Boot\
**Created:** [December 6, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/about-partition/30635 "2017-12-06T13:10:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![albumns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@albumns](https://forums.suse.com/u/albumns)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/about-partition/30635/1 "2017-12-06T13:10:25Z")

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Hello,

I normally install Linux with the following partition:

`
/ 30GB (ext4)
/swap 10 GB (swap)
/boot/efi 300 M (FAT32)
/home 400 GB ((ext4))`

However, I noticed that SUSE and other Linux introduced new Linux partition types such as btrfs. I am just wondering, what’s the advantage of btrfs? If we would like to introduce btrfs, what’s the recommended partition would be?

thanks a lot.

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**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/about-partition/30635/2 "2017-12-06T15:12:58Z")

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> [@](#):
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> On Wed 06 Dec 2017 11:14:02 AM CST, albumns wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I normally install Linux with the following partition:
> 
> ## Code:
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> ## / 30GB (ext4) /swap 10 GB (swap) /boot/efi 300 M (FAT32) /home 400 GB ((ext4))
> 
> However, I noticed that SUSE and other Linux introduced new Linux  
> partition types such as btrfs. I am just wondering, what’s the  
> advantage of btrfs? If we would like to introduce btrfs, what’s the  
> recommended partition would be?
> 
> thanks a lot.

Hi  
To complement btrfs is snapper and snapshots which are bootable  
(rollback). I would recommend 40GB / partition if you go this route as  
space is required for snapshots.

I normally reconfigure the snapper defaults (/etc/snapper/configs/root)  
to keep four (4) maximim for number limits.

You can still run btrfs on smaller partitions but would need to look at  
disabling snapper.

Have a read here;  
[https://www.suse.com/documentation/sled-12/book\_sle\_admin/data/cha\_snapper.html](https://www.suse.com/documentation/sled-12/book_sle_admin/data/cha_snapper.html)

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**Author:** ![Andreas1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Andreas1](https://forums.suse.com/u/Andreas1)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 10:00pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/about-partition/30635/3 "2017-12-15T22:00:37Z")

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XFS probably makes a lot of sense for /home

[https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles-12/singlehtml/stor\_admin/stor\_admin.html#sec.filesystems.major.xfs](https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles-12/singlehtml/stor_admin/stor_admin.html#sec.filesystems.major.xfs)

[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XFS](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XFS)

[http://xfs.org/images/d/d1/Xfs-scalability-lca2012.pdf](http://xfs.org/images/d/d1/Xfs-scalability-lca2012.pdf)

[https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red\_hat\_enterprise\_linux/7/html/storage\_administration\_guide/xfsbackuprestore](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/storage_administration_guide/xfsbackuprestore)

[https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red\_hat\_enterprise\_linux/7/html/storage\_administration\_guide/xfsrepair](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/storage_administration_guide/xfsrepair)