On 11/25/2015 11:40 PM, rlharris@oplink.net wrote:
On Wed, November 25, 2015 10:32 pm, David Christensen wrote:... there are valid reasons for putting the rescue operating system and the images on one large capacity device ...I do not understand. 1. Would not that require the drive to be partitioned into an "installation" partition and a "debianlive" partion? 2. And would it not be necessary that both partitions be bootable? 3. Or is the "installation" partition ruined when the boot loader is installed?
I've played with Debian Live a few times, but am unfamiliar with the partitioning scheme.
On my system drives -- HDD, SSD, or USB -- I typically have three partitions:
1. A "small" boot partition: ~0.5 GB, ext4 (Wheezy) or btrfs (Jessie).2. A "small" swap partition: ~0.5 GB, possibly encrypted with LUKS using a random key. (I tried running machines without a swap partition in the past, but found that they crashed when low on RAM.)
3. A root partition to fill out 90% of 16 GB: ~13.4 GB, possibly LUKS passphrase encrypted, ext4 or btrfs.
If the device is larger than 16 GB, I sometimes add a fourth "scratch data" partition. For a Debian-on-USB flash drive, this could be used to hold backups, archives, and/or images of machines that you are working on.
David