Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-18 Thread David Wright
On Sun 16 Jun 2019 at 22:50:28 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Richard Owlett composed on 2019-06-16 14:17 (UTC-0500): > > David Wright wrote: > > >> or, even easier, > > >>Use a LABEL to indicate the swap partition in all your own > ...> I can't parse that. > > I recommend learning to use

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-17 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 9:06 PM David Wright wrote: > On Sun 16 Jun 2019 at 14:17:21 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > It's rather easy to work around this problem in one of two ways (at > least): > > > > Ways on order of {# users}**N { N < world_population} ;/ > > Eh? > He's claiming that

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-17 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 17/06/2019 à 04:50, Felix Miata a écrit : I recommend learning to use LABELs on all your filesystems. They are massively easier for humans to work with than UUIDs. You get to assign them in accordance with how your brain functions, e.g.: # LABEL=m12P01esp

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-16 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2019-06-16 14:17 (UTC-0500): > David Wright wrote: >> or, even easier, >>Use a LABEL to indicate the swap partition in all your own ...> I can't parse that. I recommend learning to use LABELs on all your filesystems. They are massively easier for humans to work

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-16 Thread David Wright
On Sun 16 Jun 2019 at 14:17:21 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/16/2019 11:03 AM, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 15 Jun 2019 at 08:15:24 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the > > >

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-16 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Jun 16, 2019, 2:17 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'm not experimenting with the installation process, but with what I > want the result to be. > Those are 2 sides of the same coin. > >Does top show much use of swap anyway?) > > Not a parameter of my experiment's protocol. > As I

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-16 Thread john doe
On 6/16/2019 9:17 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/16/2019 11:03 AM, David Wright wrote: >> On Sat 15 Jun 2019 at 08:15:24 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: >>> On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association between a

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/16/2019 11:03 AM, David Wright wrote: On Sat 15 Jun 2019 at 08:15:24 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on.

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 15 Jun 2019 at 08:15:24 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the > > association between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical > > partition it is on. The file I'm looking for also

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/15/2019 09:22 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 15/06/2019 à 15:15, Richard Owlett a écrit : I have one laptop explicitly set aside for experimenting with Debian in order to determine *MY* ideal system. To this end I may have a half dozen copies of Debian to chose from at boot. For my

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 15/06/2019 à 15:15, Richard Owlett a écrit : I have one laptop explicitly set aside for experimenting with Debian in order to determine *MY* ideal system. To this end I may have a half dozen copies of Debian to chose from at boot. For my purposes, the Debian installer has two annoyances:

Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. The file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap. TIA The filename I had