Installation • minimal installation of Debian 12

What should I be looking at for disk space? I will make 3 partitions.
-the 1st will be swap and be about 8GB, which is 25% of available RAM
-the 2nd will be root
-the 3rd will be home

There is a great deal of available disk space for files and such in existing partitions so the home partition will not need to be very large. About how much should I allocate for the root partition assuming it will be 25%-50% filled (at lest for now)? My other linux root partitions are about 40GB with 10-12GB used.

Is ext4 still the best choice for formatting?

Thanks,

LMHmedchem

The partition for the swap is waste of space a swapfile will do just as well. I go with 2G for its size and it seems to really never be fully used the machine has the 32GB of ram like yours mentioned. A script I have to create it when needed and the entry for it in the fstab.
You are talking more than minimal install if it is taking 10-12GB my full install of KDE only takes up 11GB of the 40GB partition it is on my home takes the other 80GB of that 120GB ssd or nvme drive I always use for those, them being so damn cheap. All my large files are on larger drives. This saves the time and space that would be wasted during backups for them as they are backed up on my four machines accumulated every few years, over the years for that purpose. As I upgrade to new machine the old gets filled with drives to become new backup machine. The ext4 is good choice I have never had a problem with it in the well over decade of use, well there was the one time when Debian put out that trash kernel with bug that caused data loss but other than that flawless. That was easy fix boot the backup drive in the machine which is always cloned before such an upgrade and use it to restore to main drive and wait for the fixed kernel to be issued.

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