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
On 10/16/21 05:27, 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
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.
On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 09:28:30 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> 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
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 filesystem or ot
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
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 ow
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
├── No
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 01:19:05PM +0100, 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:
> > > > /ho
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
>
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?
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
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-hard-dis
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
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
i still do that :) except on severs..all the desktops/laptops i build
pretty much just have 1 root and 1 swap partition. although it can be
nice having multiple partitions i can remember many times getting
frustrated that /usr/local was almost full yet /var had gigs and gigs
free..or something to t
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
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
[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
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