[vox-tech] Need Partitioning Advice

Brian Lavender brian at brie.com
Wed Jun 24 11:57:18 PDT 2009


On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:48:37AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Bill Broadley (bill at cse.ucdavis.edu):
> 
> > Er, right in the bold 3rd paragraph he mentions /boot, he mentioned in in the
> > why partition paragraph... twice.  In fact he mentioned /boot as 4th most
> > important partition ahead of /tmp, /var, /home, and /usr/local.  He mentioned
> > /boot a dozen or so times, and it's in his examples that he lists.
> > 
> > So what is factually incorrect again?
> 
> It's not in his basic recommendation, nor his "How many partitions"
> list, nor his desktop recommendation.  The only example he has it in is
> "A suggested laptop/desktop configuration" at the end.  You're
> characterisation of "strong on /boot" is obviously wrong -- as will be
> apparent to anyone who actually reads the page.
> 
> But, you know, Karsten has already done his best to set you straight.

This is sounding personal. I am sure that Bill's system will run,
whichever method he choose. Why such factually logical steadfastness?

Once again, "LVM is king!" Horaay for the king. Long live the king, LVM.

brian
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Brian Lavender
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