Re: Specifying dedicated partions during install - pros/cons?
On Sat 28 Aug 2021 at 10:34:34 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> During the partitioning phase of the install process, the user is
> given the option of creating dedicated partitions. I chose to do it
> for /home and swap {depending on machine I may also have a dedicated
> project partition}.
>
> That the partition phase presents a menu of ~10 choices indicates the
> Debian team considers this an significant feature.
>
> Where would I find a discussion of why the particular items rated
> inclusion on the menu?
Do you mean this?
┌────────────────┤ [!!] Partition disks ├────────────────┐
│ │
│ Mount point for this partition: │
│ │
│ / - the root file system │
│ /boot - static files of the boot loader │
│ /home - user home directories │
│ /tmp - temporary files │
│ /usr - static data │
│ /var - variable data │
│ /srv - data for services provided by this system │
│ /opt - add-on application software packages │
│ /usr/local - local hierarchy │
│ Enter manually │
│ Do not mount it │
│ │
│ <Go Back> │
│ │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
What's to discuss? They're all there, those that are sensible.
Which would you consider for exclusion from this list?
Or are you suggesting they've missed one? What?
In case you're actually talking about:
┌───────┤ [!!] Partition disks ├───────┐
│ │
│ How to use this partition: │
│ │
│ Ext4 journaling file system │
│ Ext3 journaling file system │
│ Ext2 file system │
│ btrfs journaling file system │
│ JFS journaling file system │
│ XFS journaling file system │
│ FAT16 file system │
│ FAT32 file system │
│ swap area │
│ physical volume for encryption │
│ physical volume for RAID │
│ physical volume for LVM │
│ do not use the partition │
│ │
│ <Go Back> │
│ │
└──────────────────────────────────────┘
then repost (but you might as well give answers as above).
Cheers,
David.
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