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Re: Specifying dedicated partions during install - pros/cons?

On 08/28/2021 02:33 PM, songbird wrote:

David Wright wrote:

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?


My primary question was
   "Why were those particular directories mentioned?"
Implied question
   "Should I be using a dedicated partition for any of them?"

I think songbird answered that.



   aren't these historically relevant possible choices for someone
doing an expert install?

   to find out where they come from you would have to go back
into the early years of unix and then read forwards to see
if you can find where the newer one(s) were added (srv seems
to have been added after the web and web services came along).



[SNIP]


   songbird
My use-case may give me a viewpoint with similarities to early Unix adopters. I have a laptop dedicated to personal experiments installing Debian.
Why? Because one design goal of the Debian team is to have a *default* install providing a "good" system to the maximum number of users. I find some choices made to be very annoying. My reaction is taking full advantage of another Debian design goal - to have a fully custom installation done "my way" ;}!
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