On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:00:12PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 07:50:15PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > I am curious, why in hell do you want to put these partitions under /mnt and > > not under / directly ? > > That one is actually a relic from pre-LVM times when it was hard to > repartition, and partitions didn't have a useable label. > > The advantage is that you can quite easily symlink disk space from one > of the mounted partitions somewhere else without having the borrowed > space show up in the file system tree where you won't expect it > (/usr/var, *yuck*), and that you can easily see what kind of > filesystem you have when it's not mounted where it belongs.
Well, ok, but this probably means that there is no reason to use this strange setup in anything installed with d-i, is it now ? Oh, and BTW, install with debconf priority medium or less, and you will be dropped to the main menu after partman. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
