Survey: How do you partition?
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Survey: How do you partition?
I am interested in how other people partition their drives, especially for new installs. I have always used separate boot, root, and home, but lately I have been using a single partition for new test installs because it saves me time in the installer and it's easier to keep track of several spins on one drive (sda3 is Trollinger, sda4 is Proof, etc). If I have more than one spin on a drive I also use a shared data partition (mounted in fstab in each spin) where I keep things like music, wallpapers and scripts that can be shared by all the spins.
How do you set up your new installs, and why?
How do you set up your new installs, and why?
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Re: Survey: How do you partition?
One to rule them all because I am damn lazy. What is partitioning anyway? :D I have a backup, that's it. I have too much data with me that seperating things would be a mess. Top secret anti-X stuff is anyway not on the computer.
Re: Survey: How do you partition?
I just put all on each spin's partition. I don't have that much data. Most of my stuff is stored elsewhere. My dotfiles and stuff i have saved on FTP, pastebin, or github. alot of times I just mount another partition and cp the good stuff over.
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Re: Survey: How do you partition?
one lazy partition
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lazy partitioning (one for each distro), but music and porn is on one separate partition, VMs on another. Mounted if needed.
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Re: Survey: How do you partition?
lazy partitioning (one for each distro) as well.
/home but i'm getting fed up of that. think i'll just mount it as data.
Now how does that work with permissions? if wux(xcfe) writes to data, then wux(mate) writes to data, how does tony(bon3r) read them without typing sudo?
mount with some sort of no permissions?
/home but i'm getting fed up of that. think i'll just mount it as data.
Now how does that work with permissions? if wux(xcfe) writes to data, then wux(mate) writes to data, how does tony(bon3r) read them without typing sudo?
mount with some sort of no permissions?
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lazy here too, with a separate 'storage' partition for music and pictures of machinebacon.
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Re: Survey: How do you partition?
:lol:rhowaldt wrote:...with a separate 'storage' partition for music and pictures of machinebacon.
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Re: Survey: How do you partition?
Group permissions manage this. Tony and Wux are users, so the file has to belong to the user group. It's not important from where these users access the file. You can set flags which groups should have which kind of access possibilities. http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/filepermissions.htmlwuxmedia wrote:lazy partitioning (one for each distro) as well.
/home but i'm getting fed up of that. think i'll just mount it as data.
Now how does that work with permissions? if wux(xcfe) writes to data, then wux(mate) writes to data, how does tony(bon3r) read them without typing sudo?
mount with some sort of no permissions?
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thanks - should have known that 8)
Re: Survey: How do you partition?
I partition
swap
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/home
I wouldn't necessarily call it "old school" but one learned from the "school of hard knocks".
It's muuuuuuch easier to hop if you don't have to back up /home. I rename /home/hinto before a hop; hop; then copy over pertinant information. Takes about 15 minutes for a re-image.
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swap
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/home
I wouldn't necessarily call it "old school" but one learned from the "school of hard knocks".
It's muuuuuuch easier to hop if you don't have to back up /home. I rename /home/hinto before a hop; hop; then copy over pertinant information. Takes about 15 minutes for a re-image.
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Re: Survey: How do you partition?
@hinto - do your config files transfer well between different distros?
Re: Survey: How do you partition?
Usually boot, root, and home, but sometimes lazy, so I chose "Whatever: I do different things for different installs."
What could also be asked, along these lines: encrypted or not? And what file system(s) do you typically use?
What could also be asked, along these lines: encrypted or not? And what file system(s) do you typically use?
Re: Survey: How do you partition?
1 Big partition without swap, cuz I'm a gangsta.
Re: Survey: How do you partition?
You Cock Dick Mutha Fuckin Chicken Scrotum.DebianJoe wrote:1 Big partition without swap, cuz I'm a gangsta.
You paying for a new keyboard, windex for my screen, and the dry cleaning bill to get the fucking Malt Liquor stain outta my brand new all white snuggie.
You know how much 40oz of icey cold refreshing Colt 45 hurts when it comes outta yer nose?
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Hey don't take it out on Joe ! Nix-pimpin ain't easy ! ;)
More or less same as you/Pidsley. Know there are times when someone would have to have a separate /boot or whatever. Everything for one OS goes onto 1 partition here. Mainly cuz I'm lazy. Though do keep @ least a ntfs and nix shared partition handy to keep the stuff that matters to me safe n accessible. If xyz OS implodes ... oh well.
One shared swap = to system RAM. Backup partition and several idle partitions in case I ever wise up ( doubtful) and start backing stuff up like I should and/or get stricken with the distrohop itch and want to install something. Blahblahblah ...
Vll! fellows ... laterz.
More or less same as you/Pidsley. Know there are times when someone would have to have a separate /boot or whatever. Everything for one OS goes onto 1 partition here. Mainly cuz I'm lazy. Though do keep @ least a ntfs and nix shared partition handy to keep the stuff that matters to me safe n accessible. If xyz OS implodes ... oh well.
One shared swap = to system RAM. Backup partition and several idle partitions in case I ever wise up ( doubtful) and start backing stuff up like I should and/or get stricken with the distrohop itch and want to install something. Blahblahblah ...
Vll! fellows ... laterz.
Re: Survey: How do you partition?
^I was legitimately looking for partitioning possibilities and DJ's answer totally caught me off guard and at the exact time I was taking a sip. Although I'll admit, it was only diet Mt. Dew and I didn't spit anything up. Though I did spend the next half hour laughing and coughing cuz it made me swallow it down the wrong tube. :D
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Re: Survey: How do you partition?
@Potatohead
I usually only copy .mozilla, .thunderbird, (or the open iceweasel/icedove equivalent) and .jedit.
The rest I let the distro decide and tweak as necessary.
The only other manual tweak after a fresh install includes:
1) install autofs, and uncomment out the /net line in auto.master
2) instal samba and share user home directories.
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I usually only copy .mozilla, .thunderbird, (or the open iceweasel/icedove equivalent) and .jedit.
The rest I let the distro decide and tweak as necessary.
The only other manual tweak after a fresh install includes:
1) install autofs, and uncomment out the /net line in auto.master
2) instal samba and share user home directories.
-Hinto
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Re: Survey: How do you partition?
Especially helpful if you install new distros every day and have the (damned) UUID set instead of /dev names. Actually swap is bloat :)DebianJoe wrote:1 Big partition without swap, cuz I'm a gangsta.
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