Installing arch linux for the first time. Can someone help a

>>59375211
20G is usually ok for /

that is if /home has its own partition.

short answer: it depends
long answer: it doesnt matter

welcome to gnu/unix, where everything is a file so nothing is and all of it makes no sense

>>59375229
fuck you

>logical partitions
use GPT

>How large should my root partition be
depends on what you plan to put on it

my root currently has 15G of stuff on it, and it's got some big things on it

>>59375211
it depends how much shit you install/need

i've been running arch from a 4GB usb memory for almost a year.

you need around 100MB for boot, i would recommend 10GB for your /, and the rest for /home

if you have your home in a separate partition is easier to nuke your install and switch to other distro or reinstall

Set up LVM2 for partition 2 or partition 3 if you're on UEFI, since that will also require a physical ESP along with the already required physical /boot to load the LVM in the first place.

i have a 120Gig ssd that i dual-boot with windows 7 (for gaming). 30G is for winblows. on the linux side, i went with /boot 500Mb, / (root) 20G, swap 8G, and remainder /home.
that said, and i'm not trying to get too technical, this requires an extended partition, sooooo...
/boot & / are together, then swap, /home at the end.
finally, if you too want to dual-boot, you must install windows first, as it does not play well with other OSes and will take over the disk. install linux last & the bootloader will give you options for both at startup.
good luck!

>>59377139
> swap 8G
too big

>>59378390
nah man hes compiling supertextures for his hyper-mainframe gpu that runs his 5 8k monitors