6 Aug
2021
6 Aug
'21
3:17 p.m.
Hi dep,
So, then, its spare sectors come from unpartitioned, unformatted
space?
Not all of them. The drive itself has, when it leaves the factory, a
bunch of spare sectors *beyond* the advertised 500GB. And these can
only be accessed by the drive-firmware, nothing else. So when you leave
mentioned 25GB unpartitioned, you have the equivalent of 25Gb plus a
bunch extra cells! as spare.
My plan is to put everything except /home there.
It's up to you to leave the gain in speed for that unharvested.
20.04-LTS I no longer have a grub menu. Might this be because I no
longer have a dual-boot system? (I nuked the XP partition because I
hadn't booted to it in years.)
Run update-grub.
which is whether a drive's
physical location in the SATA system mattered in assigning drive
designations. If I read you accurately, by using UUIDs this wouldn't
matter
Nik mentioned a case, where this wouldn't work as expected. But
Linux prefers to use UUID (Universally Unique Identifier), LABEL, or
symlinks to identify media storage devices on a system. Using device
assignments (like /dev/hd*# or /dev/sd*#) is not preferred since these
can change between system boots.
Source ubuntu documentation.
Regards.