Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation
On 10/16/21 05:27, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 10/16/2021 06:01 AM, Linux-Fan wrote:
>> Richard Owlett writes:
>>
>>> I routinely place /home on its own partition.
>>> Its structure resembles:
>>> /home/richard
>>> ├── Desktop
>>> ├── Documents
>>> ├── Downloads
>>> ├── Notebooks
>>> └── Pictures
>>>
>>> My questions:
>>> 1. Can I have /home/richard/Downloads be on its own partition?
>>
>> Yes. The only thing to consider is that they are mounted in correct
>> order i.e. first /home/richard then /home/richard/Downloads.
>
> I think my question was misunderstood.
> Perhaps I should have repeated "Disk partitioning phase of installation"
> in the body of my message.
>
> Rephrasing my question:
>
> Can I, during the manual disk partitioning phase, specify that
> /home/richard/Downloads be on its own partition *AND* the rest of
> /home/richard/ be on its own partition?
The answer appears to be "yes" for Buster and presumably later (and
probably a number of earlier releases). Use manual partitioning, and
create partitions however you like within the limits of the disk format
(MBR or GPT). I expect you would have to create the account on which the
downloads partition would be mounted in the installer; I did not test that.
>
>>
>> Alternatively, you could mount them at independent times by using a
>> mountpoint outside of /home/richard (e.g. /media/richards_downloads)
>> and having `Downloads` as a symbolic link pointing to the mountpoint
>> of choice (`ln -s /media/richards_downloads Downloads`).
>>
>>> 2. How could I have found the answer?
>>
>> By trying it out :)
>
> *BAD* answer.
> Obviously I was asking how could I have found the appropriate
> documentation.
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/index.en.html
See 6.3.4.
Regards,
Tom Dial
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