On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 14:54 +1100, Zhasper wrote:
I think there's a bit more utility than that in at least making /home
it's own partition:
Totally agree for your reasons provided. Problem is that it's not a
newbie task to create a separate home partition nor to choose what size
the rest
On 28/02/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Going slightly OT, but is the /boot partition necessary any longer.
IIRC, this is bios-dependent. Newer bioses don't have this limitation.
cf http://www.enterprisedt.com/publications/dual_boot.html#1024,
Howard Lowndes wrote:
Going slightly OT, but is the /boot partition necessary any longer.
Wasn't that a method of getting around the boot must be in the first
1023 cyl limit?
It's not necessary, since the limit doesn't exist on modern
machines. There's no reason for it to be the default in an
On 28/02/07, Glen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The One True Partitioning scheme is
/
:-)
Seriously, for a single-spindle machine I wouldn't stuff about
with partitioning unless you want to encrypt your home
directory with dm_crypt.
I think there's a bit more utility than that in at
