Hi Nick,
Nick Holland wrote:
So far, with one or two exceptions, everyone complaining about this has a One Big Partition disk layout. A bad idea, not suggested, and I don't think you will get much sympathy.
yes of course (TM).. I won't get much sympathy, but it is the best set-up for a dual-booting laptop it works for every OS I test and worked until 6.3 for me. For other set-ups I use different partitioning schemes, but I suppose in the past twenty years or so, we all had our issues with disk layouts.
I know of one machine that behaves as you describe with a very modest (smaller than suggested) root partition, but I'm feeling very alone here. :D
what is the actual size limit? from where? I wonder that I cannot even boot the old kernel which worked.. at the previous boot!
I cannot shuffle the partitions, I cannot even reinstall from scratch, since I am unable to boot from an USB key with the installer image, it crashes both the 6.4 installer image as the old 6.3.
All important data is backed up, but I need to reinstall at least and cennot even do that. Of course booting abd being able to copy a last snapshot of my home directory would be even best, to retain my profiles.
Should I try boot from optical media? could that help? I suppose not... Thanks, Riccardo
