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The third and final partition you should create will hold your /home directory. This is the place where all the user-specific files, your data in other words, are stored. It is roughly equivalent to the “My Documents” folder on a MS Windows desktop (if you have MS Office installed). On a multi-user system, each user will have her own directory under /home.

Strictly speaking, it is not necessary to create a separate partition for /home. If you do not, it will reside on the root partition like everything else. If you are cramped for space, you may need to configure your machine this way.

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This is a holdover from "ye olde tymes" when machines had trouble addressing large hard drives. The idea behind the /boot partition was to make the partition always accessible to any machine that the drive was plugged into. If the machine could get to the start of the drive (lower cylinder numbers) then it could bootstrap the system; from there the linux kernel would be able to bypass the BIOS boot restriction and work around the problem. As modern machines have lifted that restriction, there is no longer a fixed need for /boot to be separate, unless you require additional processing of the other partitions, such as encryption or file systems that are not natively recognized by the bootloader.

Technically, you can get away with a single partition and be just fine, provided that you are not using really really old hardware (pre-1998 or so).

If you do decide to use a separate partition, just be sure to give it adequate room, say 200mb of space. That will be more than enough for several kernel upgrades (which consume several megs each time). If /boot starts to fill up, remove older kernels that you don't use and adjust your bootloader to recognize this fact.

Quote (NinjaSushi @ Jan 14 2016 12:33pm)

No one cares.

Quote (urbanshaft @ Jan 14 2016 08:48am)

Fucking it wasn't
Root boot swap
Which is weird
I guess he wanted tilde
Fuck u Greg

Quote (NinjaSushi @ Jan 14 2016 03:35am)

What should I change my dns?

Quote (Ghot @ Jan 14 2016 02:44am)

I'll take your word for it. Like I've said before...once the internet is outside my window...it's totally strange to me. Well these days.
You're up to your armpits in this kinda shyt all day, the only time I need to worry about it, is when it affects me.


They said, just go back to original DNS settings tomorrow and see if it's done propagating through all the server hops and DNS caches by then. ??

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Yes it is
What was the correct answer, (root boot home) & swap & extended partition?



That isn't a sentence :wacko:



No, they just want to monitor everything you go to & visit
let google do that instead... The only draw back to using google's DNS instead of your ISP's is it maybe takes 2 more ms travel time to request a DNS since

you -> a few routers -> your isp -> a few routers-> google

you -> a few routers -> your isp -> 1 router-> isp's dns

probably

Quote (Rikuo @ Jan 14 2016 03:02pm)

It is a sentence, its just missing a comma.

Quote (GRATS @ Jan 14 2016 05:01pm)

No, they just want to monitor everything you go to & visit
let google do that instead... The only draw back to using google's DNS instead of your ISP's is it maybe takes 2 more ms travel time to request a DNS since

you -> a few routers -> your isp -> a few routers-> google

you -> a few routers -> your isp -> 1 router-> isp's dns

probably


everything else is a pro:
security
(it probably resonds to your request faster, too)
updates WAYYYYY faster for sure
etc

Quote (Ghot @ Jan 14 2016 07:22pm)

Well, it's been about 30 hours, and it seems like the Verizon DNS server is finally updated. :)