On 2012-11-11 11:39 (GMT+0100) Chris Murphy composed:
John Reiser wrote:
36 partitions? Really? I thought GPT's 128+ partitions is actually an inside joke, ergo "you know if we give users this particular hurt me button, some will actually try it."
45 partitions across 4 drives in one box, 40 partitions across 4 drives
That's a pretty atypical use case. But even still 30 seconds for a grub2-mkconfig isn't that bad. With 85 partitions I think the end user has a greater chance of inducing data loss by forgetting wtf all those partitions are used for.
Nearly all my 30+ systems have at least 10 partitions. I have far too many to remember them all, but I don't need to. What they are is labeled on disk, and my partitioner logs this information for easy reference. I just edit the log down to what I find useful, and give the log a filename that includes the hostname. e.g.:
http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/e-965L07.txt 77 (across 2 HDs) http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/esata5004.txt 34 http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/gx150L0b.txt 38 (across 2 HDs) http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/gx27bL05.txt 23 http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/gx62bL02.txt 22 http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/m7ncdL14.txt 37 http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/t2240L0c.txt 28 -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
