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#1 2009-10-12 03:37:21
- Haptic
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[SOLVED]Necessary Partion?
Is the root partition the only partition that is required?
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#2 2009-10-12 03:45:17
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#3 2009-10-12 03:47:11
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Re: [SOLVED]Necessary Partion?
The only partition required is the root partition but a swap partition is very highly recommended. A swap partition is not required in the same sense airbags and a seatbelt aren't a requirement for a car to be drivable, just something you would want to have no matter what if you can have it. Though separate /home, /usr, /tmp, etc partitions are all a matter of preference and not needed if you don't want to set them up.
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#4 2009-10-12 08:46:30
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Re: [SOLVED]Necessary Partion?
If you want a single partition and a "swap safety net" then install without swap. When you boot your new system, make a swapfile on your root partition.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=(whatever e.g 500)
chmod 600 /swapfile
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile
remember to add to /etc/fstab
/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0
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#5 2009-10-12 09:04:08
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Re: [SOLVED]Necessary Partion?
On a side note:
if you even slightly consider testing out other linux distributions on your system,
do yourself a favor and use a separate /home partition. This way, you don't have
to copy all your user-specific settings but only mount the partition in the other
environment.
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