How would you split a 10 GB root partition? Would you?

The system seems to be booting a little slow lately (been using Arch for more than a year now) and I was thinking of splitting the root partition to improve performance.
Right now the entire OS is on a single partition. I don't have a /home partition but I can see it's usefulness:
- files on /home are, in general, more frequently written (browser cache especially), which means less fragmentation for the root partition
- having a noexec flag for /home so no potentially dangerous software will run from there (and why would you need to run software from /home?)
- my /var folder takes up 102 MB, 9.706 files in 4.846 folders. Is there a filesystem that will deal well with many small files ? ReiserFS maybe ?
So how would you split (gigabyte-wise) a 10 GB partition into /, /home and /var ? And would you ? I've been told from the IRC channel that it makes zero sense. At least not for desktop use.
PS: I'm also switching from i686 to x86_64, so please take that into account as well. For instance I noticed that 64 bit software usually takes up more space than 32 bit.
Last edited by DSpider (2011-05-29 11:32:04)

Here is what's happening on my Arch box:
. 2,1TiB [##########] /mnt
. 61,0GiB [ ] /home
5,2GiB [ ] /usr
. 2,9GiB [ ] /var
126,0MiB [ ] /opt
83,1MiB [ ] /lib
. 14,1MiB [ ] /boot
10,0MiB [ ] /sbin
. 7,3MiB [ ] /etc
5,3MiB [ ] /bin
. 3,0MiB [ ] /tmp
192,0kiB [ ] /run
20,0kiB [ ] /srv
! 16,0kiB [ ] /lost+found
4,0kiB [ ] /dev
4,0kiB [ ] /lib64
! 4,0kiB [ ] /root
. 0,0 B [ ] /proc
0,0 B [ ] /sys
< 0,0 B [ ] /media
Generated with ncdu.
I have big stuff installed like a full texlive and libreoffice and I never clean my package cache. This is /var:
. 2,6GiB [##########] /cache
. 153,2MiB [ ] /lib
57,1MiB [ ] /abs
. 31,3MiB [ ] /log
7,4MiB [ ] /tmp
. 592,0kiB [ ] /spool
. 132,0kiB [ ] /run
8,0kiB [ ] /lock
e 4,0kiB [ ] /opt
e 4,0kiB [ ] /local
e 4,0kiB [ ] /games
! 4,0kiB [ ] /enigma
4,0kiB [ ] /empty
@ 0,0 B [ ] mail
And this is /var/cache
2,6GiB [##########] /pacman
10,9MiB [ ] /pkgtools
3,0MiB [ ] /man
320,0kiB [ ] /cups
280,0kiB [ ] /fontconfig
252,0kiB [ ] /samba
! 4,0kiB [ ] /ldconfig
e 4,0kiB [ ] /hald
/usr
2,8GiB [##########] /share
1,7GiB [###### ] /lib
415,2MiB [# ] /bin
153,9MiB [ ] /include
149,8MiB [ ] /lib32
15,3MiB [ ] /src
13,7MiB [ ] /sbin
104,0kiB [ ] /local
I think I have a very typical desktop here: Mostly web/office stuff and some multimedia.

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