I'm putting together a new desktop and will be trying to make a full time switch to linux. My hardware is on the way and I'm looking for some insight as to a partitioning scheme. I'm getting my feet wet and will probably rebuild the OS structure next year - maybe to ubuntu 14.04 hopefully to SteamOS. 
system use: Gaming - video/photo editing - browsing - gaming - gaming
Primary OS - ubuntu 12.04
Alt OS - STEAMOS & other debian flavors - mintOS - (no windows!)
RAM - 16GB
Drives
With 16 GB ram I'm thinking I won't use swap much and putting it on the faster HDD will allow for fewer writes to SSD and still let me use hibernate.
The same applies for /var on the slower SSD. There's plenty of RAM for log messages until it's got time to write to the HDD.
Any help/suggestions is appreciated.
system use: Gaming - video/photo editing - browsing - gaming - gaming
Primary OS - ubuntu 12.04
Alt OS - STEAMOS & other debian flavors - mintOS - (no windows!)
RAM - 16GB
Drives
- SSD 128GB
- WD black - 1TB
- WD Green - 3TB
- OS partitions
- Dedicated primary OS partitions (used ONLY by ubuntu 12.04)
- Shared partitions that can be used by all the (debian) OS
- ubuntu 12.04 25GB on SSD
- ubuntu studio 30GB on SSD
- steamos 25GB on SSD
- mythbuntu/mint 15GB on SSD
- swap 16GB on HDD black drive (for hibernate)
- /boot 1GB on SSD
- /tmp 10GB on HDD green drive 8
- /export 400GB on HDD green
- /media 1024GB on HDD green
- /usr 10GB on SSD
- /opt 5GB on SSH
- /var 15GB on green HDD
- /home 400GB on green HDD
- /home/beans/steam 1000GB on HDD black
- /home/beans/.wine 30GB on HDD black
With 16 GB ram I'm thinking I won't use swap much and putting it on the faster HDD will allow for fewer writes to SSD and still let me use hibernate.
The same applies for /var on the slower SSD. There's plenty of RAM for log messages until it's got time to write to the HDD.
Any help/suggestions is appreciated.