David Wright composed on 2017-06-01 18:55 (UTC-0500): > When I managed to persuade the Computing Service to issue me with > several disks at the same time (very infrequently), I would make > sure I created partitions with slightly different (usually by one > cylinder, a historical concept!) absolute and relative sizes so that > I could distinguish them in circumstances where size was the only > parameter visible.
Most of my / partitions are 4800M, 5600M or 7200M, to facilitate interchange with minimal need to do any re-partitioning. I have bunches of multiboot test systems, and do a lot of cloning. There's no way I could keep track of what I have without a written record of what lives where. Luckily, the only partitioner ever used here[1] creates logs with tables that inventory each disk wonderfully. (Old) example: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/fi965d03.txt [1] http://www.dfsee.com/ -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/