On Friday 03 April 2015 14:29:37 The Wanderer wrote: > On 04/03/2015 at 02:25 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 03 April 2015 12:32:47 Brian wrote: > >> 1. Choose 'Manual' on the 'Partition disks' page. > >> > >> 2. Choose a disk and hightlight 'FREE SPACE'. Press the ENTER key. > >> > >> 3. Create a new partition. ENTER. Specify size. ENTER. Choose > >> 'Logical'. ENTER. 'Beginning' ENTER. > >> > >> 4. Highlight 'Mount point:'. ENTER. Highlight '/home'. ENTER. > >> Choose 'Done setting up the partition'. ENTER. > > > > Humm, it just occured to me that I was defining a gig & small change > > as /boot first, then /,then /home, then /opt, then the remainder as > > swap. > > No separate /var or /tmp? I thought it was best practice to keep those > separate, so that logfiles and tmpfiles don't have the chance to fill > up the root partition.
There is that too. But that is what logrotate is all about, only keep the last 4 or 5.> > > Can I infer from this that all other partitions must be defined > > first and then the last defined partition s/b "/" and that is the > > only way it will work? That would put / on an extended partition, > > but IIRC I had that condition once before, several years back > > without any excitement. > > No, that is not required. I usually define / as the second or third > out of 4-to-6 partitions, and it always works fine. > > > I had always assumed that partitions s/b defined and reserved from > > the outside in. > > From the beginning of the disk, rather, which is presumably the > outside but not necessarily. Opticals no. But I don't know of a hard drive whose cylinder 1 isn't on the outside. Perhaps my knowledge of things is dated? > I generally define partitions in order from "needs fastest access" > down, but that's a less relevant consideration nowadays than it used > to be. I agree since most drives are 100 to 1000 x faster than my first Seagate st238n was. I still have some 10 meg tandon mfm's in the basement. :) About half a minute to read a megabyte, and 2 minutes to write it, but it was still faster than the 250 kilobaud floppies on that same machine. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
