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Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation

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On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 01:19:05PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 06:27:49 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> 
> > On 10/16/2021 06:01 AM, Linux-Fan wrote:
> > > Richard Owlett writes:
> > > 
> > > > I routinely place /home on its own partition.
> > > > Its structure resembles:
> > > > /home/richard
> > > > ├── Desktop
> > > > ├── Documents
> > > > ├── Downloads
> > > > ├── Notebooks
> > > > └── Pictures
> > > > 
> > > > My questions:
> > > > 1. Can I have /home/richard/Downloads be on its own partition?
> > > 
> > > Yes. The only thing to consider is that they are mounted in correct
> > > order i.e. first /home/richard then /home/richard/Downloads.
> > 
> > I think my question was misunderstood.
> > Perhaps I should have repeated "Disk partitioning phase of installation" in
> > the body of my message.
> > 
> > Rephrasing my question:
> > 
> > Can I, during the manual disk partitioning phase, specify that
> > /home/richard/Downloads be on its own partition *AND* the rest of
> > /home/richard/ be on its own partition?
> 
> A moun point can be *manually* specified for any partition.
> 
> > > Alternatively, you could mount them at independent times by using a
> > > mountpoint outside of /home/richard (e.g. /media/richards_downloads) and
> > > having `Downloads` as a symbolic link pointing to the mountpoint of
> > > choice (`ln -s /media/richards_downloads Downloads`).
> > > 
> > > > 2. How could I have found the answer?
> > > 
> > > By trying it out :)
> > 

Richard: You have the Dell machine - you could always use this for trying
things out. There does come a time at which there is too much documentation
to find in general terms. Trying a text mode install three or four times
with different options and stepping through the questions you are asked
would also be a good and useful experiment sometime.

> > *BAD* answer.
> > Obviously I was asking how could I have found the appropriate documentation.
> 
> 0/10? I reckon my answer deserves 10/10 :). Look at what d-i offers
> in its partitioning menu.
> 
> -- 
> Brian.
> 

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Disk partitioning phase of installation Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-10-16 12:50 +0200
  Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-10-16 13:10 +0200
  Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2021-10-16 13:10 +0200
    Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-10-16 13:30 +0200
      Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-10-16 14:20 +0200
        Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-10-16 14:40 +0200
        Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-10-16 14:50 +0200
          Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-10-16 15:20 +0200
            Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-10-16 16:30 +0200
              Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-16 17:20 +0200
                Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-10-16 19:50 +0200
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                Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-10-19 16:10 +0200
      Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-10-16 17:20 +0200
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