On Mon 18 Oct 2021 at 11:07:05 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 18:47:25 (+0100), Brian wrote:
> > On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 10:12:34 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> >
> > [Lots of snipping]
> >
> > > If you want to see a blow-by-blow example of the partitioner, you
> > > could revisit
On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 18:47:25 (+0100), Brian wrote:
> On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 10:12:34 -0500, David Wright wrote:
>
> [Lots of snipping]
>
> > If you want to see a blow-by-blow example of the partitioner, you
> > could revisit this post from a while back. IIRC the thread exercises
> > most of the
gt; 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
On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 10:12:34 -0500, David Wright wrote:
[Lots of snipping]
> If you want to see a blow-by-blow example of the partitioner, you
> could revisit this post from a while back. IIRC the thread exercises
> most of the wrinkles that could occur if the user interface is
> misunderstood.
gt; > > > > >
> > > > > > > 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 cor
Hello,
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 06:27:49AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> 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?
Yes, because when you specify what file
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
> > ├── Notebooks
> > > > > └── Pictures
> > > > >
> > > > > My questions:
> > > > > 1. Can I have /home/richard/Downloads be on its own partition?
> > > >
> > > > Yes. The only thing to consider is that
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
tions:
> > > > 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 questi
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.
>
> Rephras
?
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 m
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 bed on its own partition?
Yes. The only thing to consider is that
On 16/10/2021 11:39, Richard Owlett wrote:
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 bed on its own partition?
Of course. Create a p
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 bed on its own partition?
2. How could I have found the answer?
TIA
On 02/05/2014 01:23 PM, Tino Sino wrote:
Can I invoke the CLI disk partitioning/encryption wizard I used to
install the OS to configure a new external USB drive? How?
I use the cryptsetup(8) program from the command line. Here's a HOWTO:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/hardware/howto-linux
Can I invoke the CLI disk partitioning/encryption wizard I used to
install the OS to configure a new external USB drive? How?
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hy start the first partition at sector number
> 2048? The only intentional free space is the free space at the end of the
> disk. The other free space entries were added by the partitioning program.
> And for what purpose? This is not a GPT disk, so no BIOS boot partition
> needs to be cre
purpose? This is not a GPT disk, so no BIOS boot partition
> needs to be created for GRUB. (I'm not even using GRUB, I'm using LILO.
> But the Debian installer would not have known what boot loader I planned
> to use during the disk partitioning phase. It would, however, have
On 12/16/2013 10:12 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 08:13:16 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>
>> Cool. Make sure you partition the SSD so that your first, and all,
>> partitions start on a 4KB boundary. Many guides are available for your
>> favorite partitioning tool. Linux does al
be created for GRUB. (I'm not even using GRUB, I'm using LILO.
But the Debian installer would not have known what boot loader I planned
to use during the disk partitioning phase. It would, however, have known
that this is an MBR disk, not a GPT disk.) Furthermore, this is not a
UEFI-base
On Thu, 19 May 2011 18:06:57 -0700, J. Greg Davidson wrote:
> I'm not sure how to report a bug against what appears to be a missing
> piece in the Debian Squeeze kFreeBSD system, so I'm asking both for how
> to fill the gap and also how to file this as a bug report if it is a
> bug.
(...)
I woul
to create and/or modify the
kind of partitioning set up by the installer, e.g.:
/dev/ad4 - whole disk
/dev/ad4p1 - biosgrub
/dev/ad4p2 - ufs /
/dev/ad4p3 - swap
/dev/ad4p4 - zfs pool
(not limited to 4 partitions!)
What is the name of this disk partitioning/labeling
system, anyway? It's not
hould I consider RAID 5? Under what
circumstances would it be advantageous? If I do this, I move the OS X
partition to the 1 TB drive for a while. But during the Squeeze install,
how do I specify RAID 5? I only saw reference to software RAID when disk
partitioning came up during the Debian installe
Mr. Jensen i don't know how to mirrow a disk if you
have this info it is be most needed. dan
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David: replying to you and list in event you've given up on us...
on Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:58:38PM -0800, David W. Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have been a telecommunications technician for many years & worked on
> the perifery of the data world over many years. I have got about 8
> b
I have been a telecommunications technician for many years & worked on
the perifery of the data world over many years. I have got about 8
books on Linux and have loosely studied this OS for about 3 years.
But I am certainly a newbie.So far I have not found a good
general reference about par
On Friday, September 21, 2001 6:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [...] I have tried to partition my new 40GB drive using fdisk in DOS,
> [...]
> With fdisk I can create a primary DOS partition, and a number of further
> extended and logical partitions, that, when formatted in DOS produce disk
>
similar experiences, or could suggest a solution, I would
be grateful to hear from them!
many thanks,
Duncan Smith
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To: Duncan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re:
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 2:48 PM, Duncan Smith wrote:
> As a new Linux enthusiast, I am trying to configure
> and install Debian Linux on my PC, and I am having
> problems partitioning my new hard drive for this. I
> would be reallly grateful for some advice. The new
> disk is approx 40
Duncan Smith wrote:
Hi There,
As a new Linux enthusiast, I am trying to configure and install Debian
Linux on my PC, and I am having problems partitioning my new hard drive
for this. I would be reallly grateful for some advice. The new disk is
approx 40 GB, and I have tried lots of things. W
Hi There,
As a new Linux enthusiast, I am trying to configure and install Debian Linux on my PC, and I am having problems partitioning my new hard drive for this. I would be reallly grateful for some advice. The new disk is approx 40 GB, and I have tried lots of things. What I don't understand from
9397727 4815985 4094170 54% /mnt/portal
(note each mount point is a physically different drive..)
nate
Nils Kassube wrote:
>
> Guten Abend.
>
> In the last week I've seen a lot of question and recommendations
> about disk partitioning. However, on
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Backup everything. (You do backups, don't you?) Re-partition
> your hard drive. Have more fun :-)
With kernel 2.4 soon, you won't have to really repartition anymore... you
can just resize them and create new ones... and so on (on the fly, no
reboot, no
Guten Abend.
In the last week I've seen a lot of question and recommendations
about disk partitioning. However, one answer was missing: for
your first install use only a swap partition and /. Play. Have
fun. Learn Linux. Install stuff. Learn stuff. Get rid of stuff
you didn't like. A
Hello again
Thanks to all of you that gave me suggestions on my partitioning
problem. I have one more thing to ask: I have decided to go with the
method of changing my system file attributes so that my disk
defragmenter will move them to the beginning of the drive. But how do I
do this and how
One thing I'm surprised has gone unsaid in this discussion -- keep some
extra space for testing new distributions. Even with my meager total
of 330MB (yes, I'm adding another drive RSN) I have enough space to install
a minimal system with the stuff that's really important to me, like uucp
and smai
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Timothy Phan wrote:
> :Make the following symlinks:
> :
> :/tmp -> /local/tmp (unless you might share this drive via NFS)
> :/home-> /local/home
> :/usr/local ->/local/usr
> :/var/spool ->/local/spool (again, if using NFS, you should b
Pete Templin wrote:
:
:My suggestion?
:
:20M/
:500M /usr
:100M /var
:(the rest) /local (or whatever)
:
:Make the following symlinks:
:
:/tmp -> /local/tmp (unless you might share this drive via NFS)
:/home -> /local/home
:/usr/local -> /local/usr
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Matt Kracht wrote:
> You might want something like the following:
>
> 50MB /
> 100MB /var
> 250MB /var/spool
> 250MB /tmp
> 500MB /usr
> 750MB /usr/local
> 100MB swap
My $0.02: you're not going to win any _performance_ wars by making more
partitions, particularly if
I've been aching to ask this for about a week but thought "no, its off
subject." I still havent mailed in my Partition Magic receipts.
1- I resized my dos partition and now have
[dos] [free space][linux swap][linux ext]
as my partitions.
How can I add the free space to linux ext?
Please excus
Matt Kracht wrote:
:Partitioning is kind of fun. Maybe it's just me, but I can almost
:imagine a cut scene in Batman III where Jim Carrey says, "Riddle me this,
:Batman! If I've got a two gig hard drive, how large should /usr be?"
:-) If there's one thing I can recommend it's making sure the s
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald van Loon) writes:
> |"You might want something like the following:
> |"
> |" 50MB /
>
> Is 50 Mb enough ?
My / is 16 megs and currently half empty even with four different
kernels in /boot. If /usr, /var, /tmp, and /home are elsewhere, / is
kept small and low-access.
|"You might want something like the following:
|"
|" 50MB /
Is 50 Mb enough ?
|" 100MB /var
|" 250MB /var/spool
|" 250MB /tmp
|" 500MB /usr
|" 750MB /usr/local
|" 100MB swap
|"
|"You can then mount / and /usr as read-only. I assume you meant /home by
|""user data".
Yes, that's correct. I o
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Ronald van Loon wrote:
> This leaves about 2.0 Gb for the /, /usr, /var/spool and swap partitions. I
> have another 2.0 Gb disk and I am contemplating to put the swap partition on
> there (for load balancing).
>
> I estimate a need for about 250 Mb spool.
Partitioning is k
Dear Debian Users,
I will be getting a new 4.0 Gb drive this Friday, which finally allows me to
migrate my home system from a.out to ELF. This disk will be entirely devoted
to Linux partitions. I want to reserve about 2.0 Gb for 'user' data.
This leaves about 2.0 Gb for the /, /usr, /var/spool a
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit story about bad drives.]
> I have the installation disks made and they appear to work. I have not
> been able to access the cfdisk manual doc on any of the mirror sites and I
> am afraid to proceed without it. Any suggestions on where to locate it?
I don't think you hav
On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Bob Clark wrote:
> FIPS should be at sunsite: /pub/???/distributions/slackware/install/FIPS
>
Make sure you get the latest version which should be fips15.zip or later.
The FIPS home page for verifying the most recent version is at
"http://www.student.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
Gary,
FIPS runs under DOS. I have used it to install slackware on two
different platforms. It worked great for me, just make sure you
follow the directions.
FIPS should be at sunsite: /pub/???/distributions/slackware/install/FIPS
Gary Gifford wrote:
>
> I am slowly getting around to a Debian
I am slowly getting around to a Debian 1.2 installation. I have been
hampered by the failure of 2 brand new Maxtor drives. Both failed during
disk optimization in preparation for backup and partitioning. Apparently a
bad batch of drives. I am now, somewhat apprehensively, ready to try again
wit
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