Re: Securing Debian Manual: 3.2.1 Choose an intelligent partition scheme

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Mike Mestnik <cheako@mikemestnik.net> wrote:

On 03/05/12 20:41, Fernando Mercês wrote:
> Hi Stayvoid, how are you?
>
> If you'll install grub in MBR, there is no need for primary partitions
> since grub can nicely boot logical partitions.
>

Forget about that old technology, use GPT.

> Regards,
>
> Fernando Mercês
> Linux Registered User #432779

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> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Stayvoid <stayvoid@gmail.com

> <mailto:stayvoid@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> It's possible to create 4 primary partitions.
>
> How to allocate these:
> /home
> /tmp
> /var/tmp/
> /var
> /opt
> /var/mail
> Should I use extended partitions?
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch3.en.html
>
> Cheers
>
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