On 10/16/2021 08:13 AM, Brian wrote:
On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 07:42:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 10/16/2021 07:19 AM, Brian wrote:
On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 06:27:49 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 10/16/2021 06:01 AM, Linux-Fan wrote:
Richard Owlett writes:
I routinely place /home on its own partition.
Its structure resembles:
/home/richard
├── Desktop
├── Documents
├── Downloads
├── Notebooks
└── Pictures
My questions:
1. Can I have /home/richard/Downloads be on its own partition?
Yes. The only thing to consider is that they are mounted in correct
order i.e. first /home/richard then /home/richard/Downloads.
I think my question was misunderstood.
Perhaps I should have repeated "Disk partitioning phase of installation" in
the body of my message.
Rephrasing my question:
Can I, during the manual disk partitioning phase, specify that
/home/richard/Downloads be on its own partition *AND* the rest of
/home/richard/ be on its own partition?
A moun point can be *manually* specified for any partition.
Alternatively, you could mount them at independent times by using a
mountpoint outside of /home/richard (e.g. /media/richards_downloads) and
having `Downloads` as a symbolic link pointing to the mountpoint of
choice (`ln -s /media/richards_downloads Downloads`).
2. How could I have found the answer?
By trying it out :)
*BAD* answer.
Obviously I was asking how could I have found the appropriate documentation.
0/10? I reckon my answer deserves 10/10 :). Look at what d-i offers
in its partitioning menu.
Not a 10/10 as it was the d-i menu that prompted the question ;{
You're a hard man! :)
WHO? ME? *ROFL*
It may have been hardware rather than software, but >30 years in the
trenches of tech support (including QA/QC and field inspection) can be
termed "educational" ;}
Is there documentation for the details of that sub-menu?
Not that I have seen. The Installation Guide would be the first place
to look for it.
Having written documentation on occasion, I approve of reading same.
By three references to placing /var/mail on its own partition
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ hints what I want can be
safe. But it gives no limits. That's *DANGEROUS*!
