Re: partitioning

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Le 16/07/2013 07:01, Richard Vickery a écrit :
> 
> On Jul 15, 2013 9:56 PM, "Richard Vickery" 
> <richard.vickeryrv@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:richard.vickeryrv@xxxxxxxxx>> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 15, 2013 8:33 PM, "lee" <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Richard Vickery <richard.vickeryrv@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:richard.vickeryrv@xxxxxxxxx>> writes:
>>> 
>>>> the installation program gives you everything you need to have
>>>>  an operational system; after you have it installed:
>>>> 
>>>> fdisk
>>>> 
>>>> is the command to create your much needed / loved partitions 
>>>> that the installer did not.
>>> 
>>> Well ok, in that case you may be better off running fdisk 
>>> /before/ installing so that you can install the system onto the 
>>> partitions you want right away.  The installer --- since it comes
>>> as part of a live system --- gives you everything you need for
>>> that.
>>> 
>>> The question is whether you can get it to use the partitions you 
>>> created.  That was difficult enough even without RAID or LVM.
>>> 
>>> In case I want to install more distributions or a fallback 
>>> Fedora, I need to tell their installers again where to install 
>>> what.  A universal partitioning tool could save me that.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) --
>> 
>> There is no real difference between pre-installation and disk / 
>> cfdisk,
> and all post-partitions are as usable as pre-install work.
>> 
>> Why question it? If you are interested in what I see as unnecesary
> partitions, just do it.
>> 
>> You are asking the wrong person. I quit worrying about 
>> pre-partitioning
> a 15 years ago because there is no reason to do it anymore. The 
> installer gives the user all that person requires.
>> 
>> If you really care, please email Adam Williamson for a more 
>> complete
> explanation.
>> 
>> Go watch some YouTube videos on partitioning in Linux?
> 
> I don't go partitioning my hard drive anymore, and the installer 
> created 2 for me.

The installer thinks for you and you're happy...

When you reinstall, you recreate your data. You have just a few data? You
don't have soft any which are not in the distro?

Packagers think for you and you are happy and shout: "long live to Bill
Gates!"

Lucky man!
- -- 
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Laboratoire MAP5 --- UMR CNRS 8145
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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