Hi, Ah, I actually remember making that mistake when I did the installation of my current system back in 2003. As you said, complete failure on my part. If you don't mind me asking, what sizes do you give your partitions? I have a boot partition of I think around 20/25 mb, a swap of 64mb and the rest is given over to the rest of the disk for general file system usage. I did try to create more but got issues, and since I don't keep much in /home which can't be backed up in the event of an upgrade, I didn't mind. As I am going to start over with a new system, what dod you suggest? Thanks. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Adam Myrow Sent: 04 March 2005 20:48 To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: RE: Try again a few years later On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Hodgson wrote: > this is what I have here. Also, should we put /etc in a different > partition? Under absolutely no circumstance should you put /etc in its own partition! This is because /etc is required for boot, to read /etc/fstab, and startup scripts. /etc/fstab tells what partitions are to be mounted where. If /etc were on its own partition, it would be impossible to read /etc/fstab, and the system wouldn't boot. That's a simplified explanation. Actually, there are a *lot* of required files in /etc. Basically, /etc, /root, /bin, and /sbin should always be part of the root partition. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
