Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>
> > Mike wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> David Baron wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks for all the good advice (obviously I am considering moving
> >>> stuff to a new drive). A few more questions:
> >>>
> >>> 1. (Might be elementary, not matter, but )
On Friday 13 August 2004 18:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> With that said, if you have 2 disks, it's important to have them both
> installed as IDE primaries, never having two disks on the same IDE
> channel as primary and secondary. The idea is that your system can
> read/write to the two primar
Mike wrote:
Although you can create swap space as a file, instead of the kernel
handling a raw partition to swap, all swapping must go through the
file system, which slows swapping considerably.
Not so in 2.6.
What do you mean by that? I will give you that the VMM is much better
in 2.6. B
John Summerfield wrote:
Mike wrote:
David Baron wrote:
Thanks for all the good advice (obviously I am considering moving
stuff to a new drive). A few more questions:
1. (Might be elementary, not matter, but ) what is best, place files
on partition and mount to the target directory or directory
Mike wrote:
David Baron wrote:
Thanks for all the good advice (obviously I am considering moving
stuff to a new drive). A few more questions:
1. (Might be elementary, not matter, but ) what is best, place files
on partition and mount to the target directory or directory(ies!!) on
the partition
David Baron wrote:
Thanks for all the good advice (obviously I am considering moving stuff to a
new drive). A few more questions:
1. (Might be elementary, not matter, but ) what is best, place files on
partition and mount to the target directory or directory(ies!!) on the
partition and mount t
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 03:00:04PM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> 1. (Might be elementary, not matter, but ) what is best, place files on
> partition and mount to the target directory or directory(ies!!) on the
> partition and mount to the parent directory?
I have no idea what you're asking here.
Thanks for all the good advice (obviously I am considering moving stuff to a
new drive). A few more questions:
1. (Might be elementary, not matter, but ) what is best, place files on
partition and mount to the target directory or directory(ies!!) on the
partition and mount to the parent directo
David Baron wrote:
I have two disks in my system now: an older 8g with Windows 98 (still need it
for my sound work, I'm afrad), and a newer 40g. This one has a 16g vfat32 for
audio data, another for other windows data (has documents, also cygwin and a
copy of the 6g of windows junk from the old
David Baron wrote:
I have two disks in my system now: an older 8g with Windows 98 (still need it
for my sound work, I'm afrad), and a newer 40g. This one has a 16g vfat32 for
audio data, another for other windows data (has documents, also cygwin and a
copy of the 6g of windows junk from the old
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:43:03AM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> 1. What would be an sane, effective way of setting things up, i.e.
> move /local, /var, others to their own places?
You could do, but if the drive is faulty, or fails, that would
really help having partitions on the drive.
> 2. Is it
I have two disks in my system now: an older 8g with Windows 98 (still need it
for my sound work, I'm afrad), and a newer 40g. This one has a 16g vfat32 for
audio data, another for other windows data (has documents, also cygwin and a
copy of the 6g of windows junk from the old disk--maintained by
12 matches
Mail list logo
