Hello Steve & all,

From:    Steve Litt <slitt@???>
Date:    Sun, 9 Nov 2025 04:11:20 -0500

> The only three partitions I'd recommend are swap, /, and /boot.

Definitely interesting. And I'm disappointed to find no congruence in
instructions for familiar releases. Eg.

In
https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/install-guides/excalibur/install-devuan#installing
step 10) we see,
All files in one partition (recommended for new users)
Separate /home partition [for junior gurus?]
Separate /home, /var, and /tmp partitions [for black belt gurus?]
...

In https://docs.voidlinux.org/installation/live-images/partitions.html
"... a vfat filesystem mounted at /boot/efi."
and a few lines further down,
"On most modern systems, a separate /boot partition is no longer
necessary to boot properly."

What? EFI is modern. First the document refers to /boot/efi. Then
says /boot is no longer necessary.

The second to last sentence in the Void page.
"One helpful addition could be a separate partition for your /home
directory."

From:    Steve

> I have an NVMe / partition, /usr, /lib, etc directly on the /, and
> things like /home and my various data partitions bind-mounted to a
> spinning rust. Rubber walled directories.

I'm intrigued. Read about NVMe in Wikipedia. Appears it's strictly
an interface specification. Latest hardware is M.2? A USB connector
has contacts protected by a metal shroud. Contacts of SD and M.2 are
exposed. In current usage, the SD card and USB storage stick are
superceded by M.2? The USB shroud is superfluous after all?

Steve, documentation for your storage methods would be valuable.

Thanks!                     ... P.

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