On Fri, 2022-08-12 at 14:48 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
Manually partitioning disks was an onerous task for sys admins in the
bad old days. We didn't
have UUID's, so had to be careful to keep track of which disk needed to be
partitioned, write down
the planned scheme, and carefully enter the parameters as text. Today's linux
installers
do a good job without the need for manual intervention unless your use case is far
outside the
norm.
Many the time I'd opened the box, written down the brand names and
sizes of the installed harddrives. It was easier when they were
different, and a right pain when a box had two or more identical
models.
I haven't multibooted for eons (it has its own worlds of pain), but I
still like the idea of one drive for data, another for the system. It
makes OS updates so much easier to manage.
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