On 04/03/2015 at 02:25 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 12:32:47 Brian wrote: >> 1. Choose 'Manual' on the 'Partition disks' page. >> >> 2. Choose a disk and hightlight 'FREE SPACE'. Press the ENTER key. >> >> 3. Create a new partition. ENTER. Specify size. ENTER. Choose >> 'Logical'. ENTER. 'Beginning' ENTER. >> >> 4. Highlight 'Mount point:'. ENTER. Highlight '/home'. ENTER. >> Choose 'Done setting up the partition'. ENTER. > > Humm, it just occured to me that I was defining a gig & small change > as /boot first, then /,then /home, then /opt, then the remainder as > swap. No separate /var or /tmp? I thought it was best practice to keep those separate, so that logfiles and tmpfiles don't have the chance to fill up the root partition. > Can I infer from this that all other partitions must be defined first > and then the last defined partition s/b "/" and that is the only way > it will work? That would put / on an extended partition, but IIRC I > had that condition once before, several years back without any > excitement. No, that is not required. I usually define / as the second or third out of 4-to-6 partitions, and it always works fine. > I had always assumed that partitions s/b defined and reserved from > the outside in. From the beginning of the disk, rather, which is presumably the outside but not necessarily. I generally define partitions in order from "needs fastest access" down, but that's a less relevant consideration nowadays than it used to be. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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