Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?
Hi Dan
There's a distro called Parted Magic which is based on Slack. The partitioning tool used by Parted Magic is gparted
Two questions:
(1) Can I use gparted to format any disk space to vfat?
(2) Why has it to be vfat and not some other filesystem such as amigo or macOS?
Regards.
Alan
P.S.: Thanks for your recommendation of Hetzog's guide.
On Wednesday, July 29, 2020, 7:48:50 PM GMT+8, Andrew Cater <amacater@gmail.com> wrote:
You _can_ use guided partitioning as a guide. Use Windows to reduce the amount of space it takes on the disk. Use Windows tools to format the second half of the disk, or whatever to vfat. Boot Debian: use Debian to delete the vfat partition and create blank space: then use "use largest blank space" and guided partition. Debian will recognise there's another OS there and will insert the appropriate booting magic into a GPT formatted disk with UEFI. I have (at least) one laptop here with exactly that configuration.
If you're not sure, can I recommend Raphael Hertzog's Debian handbook - which has just been released for Debian 10. See planet.debian.org recently. Download and read it in slower time.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:35 AM Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> gajuph4pre@yahoo.com wrote:
>> Hello Dan,
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>> You wrote: / will have everything in it except your personal data; /var, /srv, and so forth all fall under it.
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>> Sorry for the noob question but what does /home contain?
>
> That's where each user's personal data is stored, and if you
> open a terminal, the default first location:
> /home/gajuph4pre, /home/dsr, etc.
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> -dsr-
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