Boot confusion

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 at 23:53, Jack McGee <jack at greendesk.net> wrote:

> Ok fair enough, it was a mess.

:-)

>  I had this inventory of physical disks
> in the machine.
>

> 1tb SSD  (has one empty EXT4 filesystem filing the drive currently, but
> nothing is stored on it.)

OK.

So one question is this: how do you want to partition the big SSD?
It's very wasteful to have a ~1TB root partition. Mine are typically
16GB and 8GB on smaller distros. With openSUSE and Btrfs I use 32-64GB
allowing for lots of snapshots.

930GB is crazy. It's 10x bigger than you need. You could keep some
spare copies, say.

> > Device     Boot      Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
> > /dev/sdb1  *            63 1376528246 1376528184 656.4G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> > /dev/sdb2       1376528382 1953523711  576995330 275.1G  5 Extended
> > /dev/sdb5       1718511616 1943887871  225376256 107.5G 83 Linux
> > /dev/sdb6       1943889920 1953523711    9633792   4.6G 82 Linux swap
> > / Solaris
> > /dev/sdb7       1376528384 1704552447  328024064 156.4G 83 Linux
> > /dev/sdb8       1704554496 1718505471   13950976   6.7G 82 Linux swap
> > / Solaris

What's in them? Anything worth keeping as an emergency spare?




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