On Thu 22 Jan 2015 at 13:31:36 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 22 January 2015 09:42:13 Gary Dale did opine > > > > 50G for swap?! > > The partitioner that sets this up previously setup a bit over 2x the > memory, 18Gb for swap, then surveyed the system and found 2 more swaps, > dutifully adding then to the /etc/fstab it wrote. So at that point I had > nearly 50Gb of swap available in 3 pieces/drives.
"dutifully" means d-i did what you told it to do. You could tell it not to use some partitions. You can even tell it how much swap to use. You haven't a clue what you are doing when you are partitioning, have you? [Snip] > Removing the boot partition removes the guarantee that boot related files > will be within reach of the bios. However, 50Gb is out of line as I have > been using 1Gb for years, which has all sorts of cruft I haven't used in > yonks in it. So I'll likely fix that and slide the rest of it back out > before I put another install disk in the optical drive. I wish I could understood this; particularly the first sentence. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/22012015191626.e039c4128...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk