On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association
between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on.
The file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap.
TIA
The filename I had forgotten was /etc/fstab .
Background:
I have one laptop explicitly set aside for experimenting with Debian in
order to determine *MY* ideal system. To this end I may have a half
dozen copies of Debian to chose from at boot.
For my purposes, the Debian installer has two annoyances:
1. swap area designation.
Everything is fine on the 1st installation.
On following installations, when the existing swap partition is
is to be used its UUID is changed. This causes grief for the
other installations by making swap area appear missing. My
personally preferred solution is to activate swap only of the
initial installation. For subsequent installs actually requiring
a swap partition, I edit its /etc/fstab .
2. Grub configuration.
The installer is egotistical enough to think that what is being
installed will always be the preferred version. NOT!
My solution is install Grub only on the initial install and NO
boot loader on subsequent install. After completing one (or more)
additional installs, I boot the first install and run update-grub.
VM's had been suggested ;}
