Mick wrote:
On Monday 21 July 2008, Neil Walker wrote:
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Not my experience, though. Never had any problems with XFS due to power
failure.
Nor mine. I have machines with ext3 and reiserfs here. There is also one
with xfs. Recently, I had problems with an over-
Comments for this thread have been helpfu. I have done a test install
from the live install cd. For now, I guess, 74 GB is enough for the
entire system, leaving out my older /home directories and archives, so
I just let the installer pick a preferred partitioning configuration.
Next I think I'll
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:16:02 +0100, Mick wrote:
> Just over two years ago or so, /usr/portage on xfs, battery ran out on
> laptop.
1) Set your laptop to shutdown gracefully when power drops below 3%.
2) Use ext2 for /usr/portage, it's fast and the journalling is
unnecessary overhead.
--
Nei
On Monday 21 July 2008, Neil Walker wrote:
> Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > Not my experience, though. Never had any problems with XFS due to power
> > failure.
>
> Nor mine. I have machines with ext3 and reiserfs here. There is also one
> with xfs. Recently, I had problems with an over-sensitive breake
On Monday 21 July 2008, Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > On Monday 21 July 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> >> May I ask a few questions?
> >
> > Of course you may. Please start a new thread and address it to
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] What you have done is hit the reply button
> > to an existing thread titl
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you for some thoughtful suggestions.
>
> I have just gotten a 500GB SATA drive, intending to back up all of my
> data. What I fear most about LVM is the possibility of losing the
> data somehow. I may be too yester
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Not my experience, though. Never had any problems with XFS due to power
failure.
Nor mine. I have machines with ext3 and reiserfs here. There is also one
with xfs. Recently, I had problems with an over-sensitive breaker
tripping at irregular intervals. The only machin
Thank you for some thoughtful suggestions.
I have just gotten a 500GB SATA drive, intending to back up all of my
data. What I fear most about LVM is the possibility of losing the
data somehow. I may be too yesterday, but I sense that ordinary
partitions (at least "ordinary" to me) will be more p
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:31:51 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > If you don't want to use an initramfs, you don't need a
> > separate /boot
>
> However, there's some advantage in using one:
>
> 1) Can use a different fs than /.
Not a lot of point though, for a minimal / any general purpose FS wi
Neil Bothwick schrieb:
> If you don't want t use an initramfs, you don't need a separate /boot
However, there's some advantage in using one:
1) Can use a different fs than /.
2) Can be shared by different installations/distributions.
3) Allows to encrypt (and/or use LVs for) everything else.
Bu
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:09:09 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Here's my setup:
>
> sda1: /boot (~64M, ext2)
>
> If you don't want to use an initramfs:
>
> sda2: / (256M, xfs)
> sda3: LVM (to end of disc, no fs)
>
> If you use an initramfs:
>
> sda2: LVM (to end of disc, no fs)
If you don
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Dale schrieb:
Just to add something from experience, if you plan to use XFS, make sure
you have a UPS. XFS, at least in my experience, does not like power
failures.
Not my experience, though. Never had any problems with XFS due to power
failure.
Bye...
Dale schrieb:
> Just to add something from experience, if you plan to use XFS, make sure
> you have a UPS. XFS, at least in my experience, does not like power
> failures.
Not my experience, though. Never had any problems with XFS due to power
failure.
Bye...
Dirk
BTW: No need to quot
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Alan E. Davis schrieb:
Now, however, I've tried three or four times to install on an existing
partition. Grub will not install over the ubuntu grub, or else
something else is crazy.
Why do you do this at all? Grub is already in your MBR, so why bother
with it ag
Alan E. Davis schrieb:
> Now, however, I've tried three or four times to install on an existing
> partition. Grub will not install over the ubuntu grub, or else
> something else is crazy.
Why do you do this at all? Grub is already in your MBR, so why bother
with it again?
> May I ask a few ques
Mick wrote:
On Monday 21 July 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote:
May I ask a few questions?
Of course you may. Please start a new thread and address it to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] What you have done is hit the reply button to
an existing thread titled "Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, loca
Mick schrieb:
> On Monday 21 July 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote:
>
>> May I ask a few questions?
>
> Of course you may. Please start a new thread and address it to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] What you have done is hit the reply button to
> an existing thread titled "Warning: locale not supported by Xlib,
On Monday 21 July 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> May I ask a few questions?
Of course you may. Please start a new thread and address it to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] What you have done is hit the reply button to
an existing thread titled "Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set
to C" and just
Having been (mostly happily) using Ubuntu for a number of months I
yearn to install Gentoo again. Tried a beta release of Gentoo 2008.0,
and was pleased, at least to be able to boot and not have the
confusion about naming HDDs, and using Grub was simpler. Now, as I
approach the Live CD installer
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