On Thu 20 Oct 2022 at 01:18:10 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2022-10-19 23:51 (UTC-0500): > > > I wouldn't be able to keep track of what was where with a > > scheme like that. > > I bet you could, if you utilized a tool that facilitates it. > > DFSee Linux 16.9 : Executing: fdisk -r- -w- > Command timestamp : Monday 2022-09-12 16:13:22 > +---+--+--+-----------------+--------+--------+-----------+----------------------------------------+-----------+ > |ID |ux|Dr|Type, description|Format |Related |VolumeLabel|OS2-LVM/BM / GPT / > Crypt / additional in| Size MiB | > +--[/dev/sda MBR disk 1]--------+--------+-----------[2008 > WD5000AAKS3171]--------------------+-----------+
[ … ] > A partitioning tool that logs makes it easy for me. :) It's not the number of partitions per se, but how I'm meant to use them. Perhaps Bret will be back to explain. I reordered your list (attached) into a group that might be mounted at the same time. /, swap and /home would correspond to my own use, and /pub, /usr/local, isos and FAT downloads would be a manageable set of extras. (I normally mount, readonly, the other OS on the disk, so for this machine, my / has a top-level mount point /axisbus, which in turn has a reciprocal top-level mount point /axisbul for when I'm running buster. The rest of your partitions look like bootable OSes, plus some examples of miscellaneous formats, like FAT12 etc. This is quite different from my difficulty with Bret's scheme of /, swap, /home, /data01, /data02, /data03, /data04, /data05 … (continuing to the point of exhaustion). Granted that you don't have to mount them onto mount points named after the partitions' PARTLABELs, but what are they all actually intended for? Cheers, David.
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