-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Xavier Neys wrote:
| The question that triggered this was in fact about the home | directory, I think and the chapter about creating users does not | mention homedirs at all. One has to know that the -m on adduser will | do the trick. | | The whole guide is built around /boot, swap, / and this is well | enough for any newbie IMHO. Partitioning could require a full guide | indeed, any volunteer ? | | On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 19:23, Sven Vermeulen wrote: | |> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:02:15AM +0200, Tiemo Kieft wrote: |> |>> Will idling in #gentoo-doc BennyC came up with the following |>> issue: |> |> [... More partitions ...] |> |> Bah, every user wants a special partitioning. The current |> partitioning is the easiest to explain since we don't have to care |> about resizing (everything is inside "/"). |> |> We already say to the user that he can have seperate partitions for |> whatever he likes: |> |> """ Note that if you are setting up Gentoo Linux with separate /usr |> or /var filesystems, these would get mounted to /mnt/gentoo/usr and |> /mnt/gentoo/var respectively. """ |> |> It isn't feasible to describe every possible place where you might |> want a seperate partition. My laptop for instance has 13 partitions |> (yeah, now you're all wondering why I have 13 partitions, don't |> you? :), my desktop 7, etc. |> |> The question that should really be answered then is "How do I |> partition my system most optimally" and that question is *not* |> easily answered. |> |> Mvg, Sven Vermeulen I'll volunteer, only if you guys can wait after mid October, got some exams and papers in the mean while. Partners are welcome :D - -- Benny Chuang (BennyC) GPD Doc Developer GDP Translation lead (Trad. Chinese) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~bennyc/bennyc_at_gentoo_org.asc FP: B635 00E4 723A A22B CCD3 00C4 53CD 3411 DB8F F979 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/gAfFU800EduP+XkRAmOZAKCk4s1ohqVcQq5ZJ60DNG7YpvfxeQCfWAQA K+J4Ry7EcPVrhgpg1eX/GF8= =ZAmH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
