[tde-users] Re: Partitioning advice sought

said Felix Miata via tde-users: | It's not UEFI that requires it. It's too big for the old partition table | scheme developed last century. The new scheme is called GPT, for GUID | Partition Table. Thanks for this. There were a lot of acronyms that erupted during the period between the last two drive installs here. And the last drive install was probably five years ago. It being nontrivial and seldom done, I committed none of it to memory. | Most Linux installers, including that of Debian, are capable of doing | all partitioning required, usually proposing a scheme suitable for use | with the disk space provided, but allowing alterations to that scheme, | or letting you create your own. They will also allow you do simply | specify which partitions you may have already created in advance to use | for what purpose. My chief concern was the FAT32 partition. Looking at my current drive with gparted, I see the attached, and the placement of the partitions puzzled me. But this was during an experiment to boot from a small SSD in pursuit of speed. (Which worked briefly but then didn't; the SSD was SDC.) I'm now interested not so much in having a drag racer as a reliable car to get to town and back. The partitions in the screenshot are not in any order in which I would normally place them, which added to my confusion. | Desire may include a partition for swap, and one or more for user data, | such as one for mounting to /home/, which is where each user account is | situated. Right; got that. Will make a swapfile simply because it is good practice, like putting TDE in /opt, which hasn't really been essential since the days when I was recompiling KDE a couple times a week, and when things went south it was easier to deal with if it was kept in a cage. Now it is probably habit, but also one less variable if things went pear-shaped. | What would be "the usual things"? Order on GPT doesn't matter, but the | convention is ESP first, then everything else. The usual things are as shown in the screenshot; you mentioned that ESP should come first, but as you can see, it somehow ended up as sda4, and I was not sure if this was bookkeeping or the physical location on the drive. I think you've told me what I need, and I thank you. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/