On 2020-11-25, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 19:43:04 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> > Rename one of the directories and see if you can still boot :)
>>
>> That may not be a valid test. If grub is using a blocklist to locate
>> secondary files, renaming the directory that
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 19:43:04 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> > Rename one of the directories and see if you can still boot :)
>
> That may not be a valid test. If grub is using a blocklist to locate
> secondary files, renaming the directory that contains those files
> won't bother grub at
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2020-11-25, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:30:46 -0600, Dale wrote:
>>
> If I can get rid of the plain grub, that would free up some space.
> The grub2 directory isn't as big but still wouldn't hurt.
GRUB2 uses /boot/grub here, I suspect
On 2020-11-25, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:30:46 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>> >> If I can get rid of the plain grub, that would free up some space.
>> >> The grub2 directory isn't as big but still wouldn't hurt.
>> > GRUB2 uses /boot/grub here, I suspect /boot/grub2 might be the
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 18:37:43 +, antlists wrote:
> Personally, I wouldn't use dm-crypt, but then I'm not particularly into
> crypto.
It's a laptop that could be lost or stolen, not using some form of
encryption would be insane. I don't use dm-crypt on desktop systems as
long as the
On 24/11/2020 16:51, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2020-11-24, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:38:59 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
But actual partitions?
Yes. Each with a separate Linux distro installed.
Perhaps you can do that with a volume manager instead of partitions
(using
On 2020-11-24, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:38:59 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> > But actual partitions?
>>
>> Yes. Each with a separate Linux distro installed.
>>
>> Perhaps you can do that with a volume manager instead of partitions
>> (using partitions has worked
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:38:59 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> > But actual partitions?
>
> Yes. Each with a separate Linux distro installed.
>
> Perhaps you can do that with a volume manager instead of partitions
> (using partitions has worked fine for the past 20 years, so I've never
>
On 2020-11-24, Jack wrote:
> I only have two or three such distros I use for testing, but I have
> each in a VirtualBox machine. For me, spinning up a VM is easier
> than a real reboot.
I don't trust VMs when testing drivers for PCI cards or applicatoins
that use raw Ethernet.
--
Grant
On 2020-11-24, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:01:35 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> > Can you imagine an fstab with 22 partitions? Doesn't bear thinking
>> > about.
>>
>> Yes. I have one with 12 and often wish it had more.
>>
>> It comes in handy when you need to test
On 11/24/20 10:41 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:01:35 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
Can you imagine an fstab with 22 partitions? Doesn't bear thinking
about.
Yes. I have one with 12 and often wish it had more.
It comes in handy when you need to test drivers and
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:01:35 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> > Can you imagine an fstab with 22 partitions? Doesn't bear thinking
> > about.
>
> Yes. I have one with 12 and often wish it had more.
>
> It comes in handy when you need to test drivers and applications
> against different
On 2020-11-24, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 09:20:52 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
>> Can you imagine an fstab with 22 partitions specified with UUIDs?
>> Doesn't bear thinking about.
>
> Can you imagine an fstab with 22 partitions? Doesn't bear thinking
> about.
Yes. I have one
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