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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:08:53 -0700 From: "Karsten M. Self" <kars...@linuxmafia.com> To: Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> Subject: Re: (forw) Re: [vox-tech] (forw) Re: (forw) Re: Need Partitioning Advice Bill Broadley <b...@cse.ucdavis.edu> wrote: > > I also make a point of noting that there's nothing particularly "wrong" > > with the One Big Partition school (though root plus swap is still > > generally recommended). > > You say that here, 3 partitions in the actual document says different. Um. I said: One large system partition. A boot partition (strictly optional), a swap partition (strictly optional), and the system root filesystem. Isolating boot offers a few benefits (mostly dealing with flaky BIOSes and bootloaders). Swap partitions are IMO cleaner. Given historical partitioning schemes, it's pretty bloody simple. Among the reasons I wrote the document under discussion was to avoid discussions such as this. The author means to be helpful but is a busy and testy chap. Incidentally, your initial partitioning concept (/, /home, and swap) is perfectly serviceable. For Debian or Ubuntu, 10-15GB for root should be ample. Or just do / and swap. When I said: "there's no specific need", I mean that literally. The Linux partitioning gestapo are not going to repeal your GPL and eat your children because you've partitioned a particular way, though you may, in the course of events and storage accidents, discover some of the benefits of a more nuanced scheme. > > *** IN BOLD TEXT!!! *** > > > > *** IN THE THIRD PARAGRAPH OF THE FAQ!!!! *** > > > > I guess you can't please 'em all. > > You sound much more reasonable in your above statements then you do in the > document. ... I am deeply disturbed when *** STARRED TRIPLE BANG ALL CAPS *** is read as more reasonable than measured and informed advice.... > In this mentioned "THIRD PARAGRAPH OF THE FAQ" still in bold you admit > the increasingly popularity of "minimal partitioning" which you go on > to explain actually means 5 partitions. Um. I think I'll just stop here. Because that is factually incorrect to a degree that seems as if it might be willful. Have a nice day. -- Karsten M. Self <kars...@linuxmafia.com> http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten Ceterum censeo, Caldera delenda est. ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
