On Thursday, 9 June 2022 03:22:56 EDT Felix Miata wrote: > gene heskett composed on 2022-06-09 02:59 (UTC-0400): > > Are you saying that I can partition this new drive with gparted and > > make the d-i use that? That would be the holy grail if so. > > This possibility became reality in antiquity. I never would have > completed my first Debian installation attempt if this were not the > case. I can't remember the last Gnu/Linux installer I ran across that > didn't have this capability. Unlike David, who /usually/ partitions > prior to starting up the Debian installer, I *always* do. Only one > partitioner is ever used on any of my partitionable media. I usually > format first too, including any swap partition. > > > Question then: > > Since /home would be just a mount point for the raid10, how big does > > that partition actually have to be? Is a single 4096k inode big > > enough? > A mount point isn't a partition. It's a directory purposed for mounting > a separate filesystem. The directory, and its inode consumption, goes > on the root filesystem. Thanks Felix. That clarifies it.
Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis