On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 14:02:27 (-0500), Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > On 01/04/2019 01:11 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2019-01-04 12:57 (UTC-0500): > > > > > I haven't messed around with partitioning since the early days of > > > Slackware, and that was with a great deal of trepidation? > > You just multiplied my curiosity about what exactly was responsible for > > your current partitioning > > scheme, not to mention what will be used for your planned reinstallation. > The installer for Debian Stretch has an new option thzt thought I'd > try.: separate /home, /var and/temp partitions.
Ignoring /home as it dwarfs / in size, it would be very easy to make a mistake if you take an existing installation and hive off the /tmp and /var into separate partitions. The problem boils down to leaving the existing /var contents (in the root filesystem) in place when you mount the new var partition onto /var, thereby making those files inaccessible. > Over the last 50+ years as Research Scientist I have tried to follow > the policy that it's all right to make mistakes.. As long as you try > not to make the same mistake in the same contiguous four hours - that > is if you make a mistake in the morning, wait until that afternoon to > repeat it. But even more important from the mistake and try not to > repeat it. I think that making mistakes is an integral part of the > scientific method. > > Of course, there is a corollary - you can't teach an old scientist new > science. > > Having babbled for the last two paragraphs, I'll close buy saying that > I will revert to the entire installation on the same partition. I would advise you to keep your separate /home partition. Except for dot files/directories, they're independent of the OS. It makes reinstallation and upgrades a lot easier. Cheers, David.
