[ale] OT: micro mini nano PC

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Sat Jan 30 18:32:13 EST 2016


The drive that has root partition is 2 TB, the partition itself.

Unless it's a monolithic system with everything on one partition.
On Jan 30, 2016 5:11 PM, "Sean Kilpatrick" <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay; I'll show my ignorance here.  Why would you need 2TB for a root
> partition?  I'm running CentOs 7 as a desktop, so / has a lot of crap in
> it that ordinarily wouldn't be needed.  Even so, the boot partition
> and / together amount to less than 10 GB.
>
> Sean
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On Sat, 2016-01-30 at 16:54 -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
>
> >
> > Ohhhhhhh!
> >
> > That lets me back in. I thought it was one of these new, Windows10
> > certificate "secure boot off-switch is optional" mobos, lacking a secure
> > boot off-switch.
> >
> > You don't know whether the NUC can also accommodate MBR boots, do you?
> > All other things being equal, when I install Linux on a computer whose
> > root partition drive is less than 2TB, I go MBR every chance I get.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > SteveT
> >
> > Steve Litt
> > January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
> > http://www.troubleshooters.com/28
> >
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