'correct' may not be the right term - what suits (you) best was better.
Besides those 'old, classic' partition schemes are mostly obsolote, today, especially in one, or two drive systems (I presume it's a laptop we're talking here; otherwise you may reconsider
VladiBG's advice, add more drives, and do raid), you may more consider how to partitioning about backups, and migration of partitions to another, successor system, which will be primarily /home, or anything you extra create for storing your data, like /mydata, /pictures, /cider_recipes... whathaveyou.
- separate data from your system, physically, means separate drives -
I agree with
mer that I would use your second 1T device for /home, and leave the rest -the system- on the first 256G drive.
/home contains your data, that's what valuable. The system is 'throw away'.
100G for /var in my eyes is overkill; 20...30 would be way more than sufficient.
But personally on that system I don't see no real benefit to create an etxra /var partition anyway. If you'd gave it its own drive, okay. Anyway I would leave \var always on the fastest drive, which I presume was your 1st 256G nda0.
I also would not do an extra partition for /tmp; if you don't keep very large amounts of data in that (within normal usage /tmp on my machine uses some M at the max, hardly 1G), you may consider to use tmpfs, move your /tmp into RAM, which is done by simply add
Code:
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,mode=777 0 0
to your
/etc/fstab
and
to your
/boot/loader.conf
To just give you an idea how my 256G main nda looks (I guess one silent part of the question is "how much storage capacity is to be expected to use (for what)?"):
Code:
=> 40 488397088 nda0 GPT (233G)
40 532480 1 efi (260M)
532520 1024 2 freebsd-boot (512K)
533544 984 - free - (492K)
534528 33554432 3 freebsd-swap (16G)
34088960 454307840 4 freebsd-zfs (217G)
488396800 328 - free - (164K)
On 4 is my whole system /, /usr, and /var
While my whole system uses ~70G, and there are ~140G left free (Okay, I don't run a large DE like KDE Plasma; but even then 200G for the system (most will be in /usr) was sufficient.
32G for swap is by far way more than sufficient; I almost always chose the predefined 16G (I have 64G RAM - way too much for what I'm doing), and yet I never used any swap space at all so far. But, okay, others may tell other storys - depends on what you're going to do.
In my eyes swap is emergency reserve. If your system swaps a lot you simply have too few RAM for what your doing with the machine (The 90s with slide-show Windows, and HDDs begging for mercy are over
.)
