Bug#170905: marked as done (Boot-floppies - woody - documentation error)
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From: John Summerfield <summer@computerdatasafe.com.au>
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Subject: Boot-floppies - woody - documentation error
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:52:26 +0800
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Package: boot-floppies:
Version: woody May 16 2002
I am looking at page 60 (68 according to my viewer) where the text reads, "For
new users, personal Debian boxes, home systems, and other single-user setups,
a single / partition (plus swap) is probably the easiest, simplest way to go.
It is possible to have problems with this idea, though, with larger (20GB)
disks. Based on limitations in how ext2 works, avoid any single partition
greater than 6GB or so."
I'm pretty happy with one partition, I disagree with a swap partition (but
that's not why I'm writing). It's the last sentence that gets me. If you want
me to believe a statement like that you'd better justify it. It looks plain
wrong to me
And also explain how to manage 120 Gbyte drives with 20 partitions. _That_ is
not an undertaking I'd like to take.
Possibly there was a problem with 2.2 kernels and (g)libc prior to 2.2, but I
for one have been on post 2.2 kernels for a couple of years (needed the
device support in 2.3) and glibc 2.2 since Red Hat introduced it.
I've been using Linux for years, and I have no qualms about making big
partitions. What's the problem?
As to a swap partitiion. Get out a CD (coaster quality will do). Draw a thin
line either round the perimeter or round the hub. That line represents your
swap partition, the rest of the surface is where you have your data. Think
about the disk drive's heads seeking between swap and data.
I go for a swap file in the hope it's moderately close to at least some of my
data. Your swap partition almost never is. Probably it's right next to your
kernel and you hardly ever use that either.
Different if you are running a serious server and can dedicate a fast disk to
swap.
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Subject: boot-floppies end of life
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I'm closing all bug reports filed on the boot-floppies since this
codebase has reached its end of life. boot-floppies is only in Debian
oldstable now (and temporarily in unstable because of bug #224469).
The new installer for sarge and beyond is of course, the
debian-installer. It solves a great many issues present in the
boot-floppies.
If you believe that your boot-floppies bug is still present in
debian-installer somehow, then please reopen the bug report and reassign
it there, or perhaps better, file a new bug report.
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see shy jo
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