Try again a few years later

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi,

Ah, I actually remember making that mistake when I did the installation
of my current system back in 2003.  As you said, complete failure on my
part.

If you don't mind me asking, what sizes do you give your partitions?

I have a boot partition of I think around 20/25 mb, a swap of 64mb and
the rest is given over to the rest of the disk for general file system
usage.  I did try to create more but got issues, and since I don't keep
much in /home which can't be backed up in the event of an upgrade, I
didn't mind.  As I am going to start over with a new system, what dod
you suggest?

Thanks.
Andrew.

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Adam Myrow
Sent: 04 March 2005 20:48
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: RE: Try again a few years later

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> this is what I have here.  Also, should we put /etc in a different 
> partition?

Under absolutely no circumstance should you put /etc in its own
partition! 
This is because /etc is required for boot, to read /etc/fstab, and
startup scripts.  /etc/fstab tells what partitions are to be mounted
where.  If /etc were on its own partition, it would be impossible to
read /etc/fstab, and the system wouldn't boot.  That's a simplified
explanation. 
Actually, there are a *lot* of required files in /etc.  Basically, /etc,
/root, /bin, and /sbin should always be part of the root partition.


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