I started the installation with fedora silverblue .iso file with vmware on 50GB space. I want to partition the disk manually. I will create /var, /var/log, /tmp, / (root), /home, swap, 2MB mandatory partition related to boot (I forgot the name) and /boot partitions. I will install with custom installation options or custom gui installation option. I will encrypt the disk. I will choose keyboard tr. I have allocated 50 GB of space for the virtual machine OS. How much space should I allocate for partitions? My local AI that I installed on my AI workstation machine suggested me to allocate: 10 GB for /var, 1GB for /var/log, 2 GB for /tmp, 15 GB for / (root), 17 GB for /home, 4GB for swap; 2 MB for a partition needed for boot (I forgot the name), 1GB for /boot. I was skeptical, because silverblue installs packages in a container, so I guess silverblue installs them in /var. If that’s the case, shouldn’t I make the /var partition bigger: /var 18-20GB, /10GB, /home 12-14GB? What should I do, how should I partition the areas?
The second thing I would like to know is; since I want to install with luks encryption, how should I install it manually? Which partitions should I encrypt. should I encrypt them all separately (actually I installed it this way, but I couldn’t boot the system because it gave a password error, so I don’t know if it was installed properly)? Or should I create a primary partition with lvm, encrypt the primary partition with luks, create 6 logical partitions (/var, /var/log, /tmp, / (root), /home, swap) inside the primary partition and enable luks encryption on each partition? (I installed GuixOS this way, so I think this approach might be right. ) Should I create the remaining two boot partitions as separate primary partitions (as far as I know I shouldn’t encrypt these partitions)? How should I do the disk partitioning and encryption? Should I install with the custom installation option or with the custom GUI installation option?
I checked today and it was up and running without any problems. I installed it correctly. The password error was that I was typing the password incorrectly because the keyboard setting on the luxury password prompt screen was “en” English and the English characters were incompatible with my physical keyboard tr keypad. I couldn’t tell if I was typing it incorrectly because the password was displayed as ******* so that the password would not appear in the password box. The problem was that the keyboard setting was not tr.
You asked why I wanted to do this partitioning, and you claimed it was bad partitioning. I set up an AI workstation server at home for personal use, 4 Nvidia H100s connected. I told my AI assistant that sometimes I need to do a clean fedora format of my system for security or privacy reasons, or sometimes because of a system crash, and when I do, I want my system settings, configurations, application configurations, application data; my flatpak applications (from fedora flatpak repo or flathub repo), flatpak application settings and configurations; my appimage applications and configurations; my compiled applications and the settings and configurations of these applications to be deleted. I also asked how to ensure that the temp record is minimal and the log records are very limited. I also asked how to use the /home and /var directories from the system directories in the virtual machine when I format the PC. I also asked that I want to protect my log, temp and personal information, that I will encrypt the lux password with a physical security setting to prevent unauthorized access to the system, so I asked how I should do partitioning and partition encryption. I am trying to find out the accuracy of the answers he gave me by asking experienced users on the forum. I will both understand how much I can trust AI and decide how to set up the system with your answers.
As I explained, I don’t want to keep unnecessary logs and templates on the system and if I have to format again, I want to move the /var and /home directories and continue where I left off.