Best partitioning scheme for dual boot ? (lemmy.ml)

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Hello ! I am actually running a dual boot with Windows and Arch. I have 5 disks (3 HDD and 2 nvme SSD) with this partitioning. These are the drives : HDDs :

WD Blue 2 TB hdd (5400 RPM)
WD Blue 1TB hdd (7200 RPM)
Seagate Barracuda 2TB hdd (7200 RPM) SSDs :
Samsung 870 evo 512GB
Kingston A1000 256GB

And this is the partition scheme that I used so far

Windows
- 512 GB SSD => NTFS for the OS
- 2 TB HDD (Seagate one) => NTFS for games
- 1TB out of the other 2 TB (Wd blue) drive (Backups) NTFS
Linux
- 256 GB SSD => ext4 for the OS
- 1 TB HDD => ext4 for data and games
- 1TB out of the other 2 TB drive (Backups) ext4

Some problems that I encounter are disk space problems on the Linux SSD because sometimesvI want to install demanding games on it.

Do you have any advice on what I can do to make this scheme better?

Thank you in advance.

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[-] reddthat@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only thing I would change is your backup drive. Linux can write to NTFS without issues. You'd be better off with 2 TB instead of 2x1TB.

I would get rid of all the HDDs for games as they are too slow. Verifying files under steam or other clients is so slow compared to SSDs. (If you can afford it of course, otherwise it's fine)

There isn't anything else wrong per-se. Except for still having windows installed 🤣. Proton (wine) via steam or lutris, solves 99% of all issues with running games on linux. (except for Anti-Cheat games like valorant).

[-] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ntfs is a notoriously bad file system. If he has the physical space (which he has), better to use a better file system. Ext4 might be "old" but it's a much better FS. Backup space is overblown imho

[-] Written2323@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I had a lot of problems with proton and NTFS drives recently (slowness and games that would not launch)

[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, it's recommended against using proton with NTFS. It's known to cause issues.

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