2tb m.2: ext4, installation partition + general use

1tb m.w: ext4, secondary drive with some backup

(i dont have a nas yet :( )

I use BTRFS for everything, and openSUSE Tumbleweed set up some decent mount points and automatic snapshotting for me.

I have two drives:

• NVMe drive - my BTRFS Linux partition and SWAP
• SATA SSD - Windows partition - pretty much unused

That's it. It's simple and it works. I used to do funky things with mount points and whatnot, but it's more annoying than anything imo.

My NAS (openSUSE Leap) is similarly simple:

• SATA SSD boot drive - BTRFS with snapshotting
• 2 HDDs in a BTRFS mirror

Nvme ssd, 480 gigs = Linux root ext4, with a smol /boot/efi/ partition

Sata ssd, 480 gigs = windows install

Hdd, 1 Tb = Linux home ext4

External usb3.0 2tb Hdd = shared storage exFat

My GPT setup:

• sda (SSD) ntfs 477 GiB Windows
• sdb (SSD) ext4 224 GiB Linux
• sdc (HDD) ntfs 931 GiB Windows Storage
• sdd (HDD) ext4 931 GiB Linux Storage

I only use half of each drive for its stated purpose. Then I backup onto a different drive in case of hardware failure. (This obviously does not protect against fire or theft.) Not exactly what you asked, but I'd already started copy/pasting...

I dont even want to think about how many partitions there are on my PC. windows has 4 or 5 just existing, then there's root, home and swap plus 2 more for the 2 other drives. So.. 9 or 10? its been a while since I had a reason to care.

As for what you should do, if you are replacing windows, it wont really matter what the format on the windows part is because youre going to need to back up the save data and reinstall those games eventually anyway. You cant really run the same game installs on both OSes.

I wouldn't recommend it, but my current setup is I reach into the computer, unplug one SSD and plug in the other. Not the most high-tech dual boot but yeah

• 1TB NVMe SSD
  • 512 MB EFI
  • BTRFS partition for / filling up the rest
• Ancient 128 GB SATA SSD
  • Swap
• 1TB SATA SSD
  • 500 GB Windows installation for VR games
  • 500 GB BTRFS partition mounted at /mnt/games

Since both my root and home are on the same BTRFS partition they share space.

I have made sure to create sub volumes for the Steam and Game install directories, to avoid taking snapshots of them.

Steam has 2 "libraries" registered, one in my home directory and one in /mnt/games

Logical volumes. it slows down IO on this setup but i don't run IO intensive games. It allow me to just repartition and add drives as needed.

I have 4 drives. An NVMe drive with four partitions: 500MB /boot 64GB Swap 100GB / and the rest of the 1TB goes to /home. Then I have a 1TB SSD for games which is mounted to ~/Games. Then I have two 1TB HDDs, one for Music mounted to ~/Music and another for Torrents mounted to ~/Torrents. I also have an 8TB HDD coming which will be another torrents drive