Anno domini 2021 Fri, 6 Aug 17:17:28 +0200 phiebie@xxxxxxx scripsit: > 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. They don't change and never have. Systemd GNOMEs have put that myth out to justify the crude new naming scheme for e.g. ethX - which, too, never change but behave deterministic. I would not blame changing names on the OS when the user moves hardware e.g. from sata0 to sata2 and keeps sata1 in place. Nik > > Regards. > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
