Subj : Re: Installing Debian
To   : apam
From : Avon
Date : Mon Sep 21 2020 12:30:34

On 20 Sep 2020 at 07:41p, apam pondered and said...
 
 ap> I'm a little late to the party, but why are you chopping up the hard
 ap> drive in the first place? Why not just use one big volume for root?

I'm not sure to chop it up or not but the installer gave me several options
which led me down this thread/path :)

It seems like the ease of just having one big partition for root and
something small for swap like 2-4 gigs may be the way to go. 

 ap> As for LVM, I'd do what zip suggested, it doesn't have much impact, and
 ap> gives you the option later on of adding a hard drive to the filesystem.

Thanks, yes I'll take this advice on board and do this when I next have a
chance at doing something on the computer at home. Not sure if tonight will
be a starter :(

 ap> I suppose if you're worried about running out of space due to some
 ap> misbehaving application eating it all up, you might split it up..

I may have Usenet on the box in the medium term as I try to cut down running
computers and this does chew up space but does it need separate partitions on
the same HDD? I'm starting to think probably not.

If I LVM I guess I can always add another HDD if need be anyway to offset any
issues with storage running out.

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