On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:41:58 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > This isn't a rescue partition, it's just a GRUB menu entry and a copy
¬
> > f the ISO in /boot, so far less maintenance even than making sure a
> > USB stick stays put. Plus it is much faster to boot.
>
On Sun, July 21, 2013 01:45, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 07:02:35 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
>
>> > Yes, and it's mounted ro to minimise the risk of such damage.
>
>> I used to do this (keeping a rescue partitio) ... but found it was
>> useful only some of the time. Nowadays I
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 23.07.2013 00:22, schrieb Paul Hartman:
>
>> I personally use "discard" with ext4 and btrfs, but I have not done
>> tests or have evidence that it is the best choice for me. It's simply
>> what I chose and never changed it. :)
>
> T
Am 23.07.2013 00:22, schrieb Paul Hartman:
> I personally use "discard" with ext4 and btrfs, but I have not done
> tests or have evidence that it is the best choice for me. It's simply
> what I chose and never changed it. :)
Thanks, Paul!
More of a "I do it MY way" than a generic "best practice
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 19.07.2013 21:02, schrieb Paul Hartman:
>
>> Old SSDs that did not support TRIM would suffer write amplification
>> after a certain amount of data had been written to them, but any
>> modern SSD and modern OS will keep it nice and t
Stroller wrote:
I wouldn't have bothered making this distinction, but I think:
1TB = 1000GB
1Tb = 125GB
There are also TiBs[0]:
1 TiB = 1024 GiB
Similarly, there are MiB, etc.
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tebibyte
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Am 19.07.2013 21:02, schrieb Paul Hartman:
> Old SSDs that did not support TRIM would suffer write amplification
> after a certain amount of data had been written to them, but any
> modern SSD and modern OS will keep it nice and tidy.
What's the "best practice" now for TRIM?
I changed to manual
Am 21.07.2013 01:45, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> This sin't a rescue partition, it's just a GRUB menu entry and a
> copy f the ISO in /boot, so far less maintenance even than making
> sure a USB stick stays put. Plus it is much faster to boot.
Yep, I got that set up as well when I did my GRUB2-learn
Am 20.07.2013 05:32, schrieb luis jure:
> on 2013-07-20 at 09:51 William Kenworthy wrote:
>
>> You have to map the drive so grub can find it:
>
> no, i don't think that's the problem.
>
> the problem is that with GPT disks you need a BIOS Boot Partition since
> they don't have a MBR. is that cor
On Sunday 21 Jul 2013 10:21:45 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 10:14:22 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > What a lot of work!
>
> Yes, probably too much.
>
> > Oh, or I could sacrifice (part of) a swap partition to expand /boot
> > into.
>
> That would be easier, you could always add m
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 04:50:42 -0500, Dale wrote:
> > That's the one with Mel Gibson?
> >
> >
>
> It starts with a B. Ironic huh?
Actually, his surname appears to mean "son of a GibiBit" ;-)
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On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 10:57:24 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > Actually, portage looks for enough space before even starting and
> > still does. However, when I force it to ignore it, it stops and says
> > it ran out of space. I'd just rather it didn't use swap anyway.
> > Either way, OOo and LOo used to n
Mick wrote:
On Sunday 21 Jul 2013 10:40:11 Dale wrote:
Actually, portage looks for enough space before even starting and still
does. However, when I force it to ignore it, it stops and says it ran
out of space. I'd just rather it didn't use swap anyway. Either way,
OOo and LOo used to need l
On Sunday 21 Jul 2013 10:40:11 Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > On Saturday 20 Jul 2013 06:12:40 Dale wrote:
> >> Bruce Hill wrote:
> >>> If 16GB of RAM wasn't enough, ydiw. I've used that line of 7G forever,
> >>> and run app-office/libreoffice, as well as firefox and some other big
> >>> app (forget
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:50:29 -0500, Dale wrote:
Neil, you know how payback is right? ROFL
That's the one with Mel Gibson?
It starts with a B. Ironic huh?
Dale
:-) :-)
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 15:02:48 -0500, Dale wrote:
I
also keep the last two versions of sysrescue for my USB stick.
How do you copy one to a stick when you need to rescue an unbootable
system? I prefer to keep the ISO in /boot, no need for a USB stick then.
It's hard to p
Mick wrote:
On Saturday 20 Jul 2013 06:12:40 Dale wrote:
Bruce Hill wrote:
If 16GB of RAM wasn't enough, ydiw. I've used that line of 7G forever,
and run app-office/libreoffice, as well as firefox and some other big
app (forget it's name) and _never_ had a problem.
Well, a while back, OOo and
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 10:14:22 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > This sin't a rescue partition, it's just a GRUB menu entry and a copy
> > f the ISO in /boot, so far less maintenance even than making sure a
> > USB stick stays put. Plus it is much faster to boot.
>
> An interesting idea you presen
On Sunday 21 Jul 2013 00:45:55 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 07:02:35 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> > > Yes, and it's mounted ro to minimise the risk of such damage.
> >
> > I used to do this (keeping a rescue partitio) ... but found it was
> > useful only some of the time. Nowad
On Saturday 20 Jul 2013 06:12:40 Dale wrote:
> Bruce Hill wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:34:27PM -0500, Dale wrote:
> >>> Stop using disk and build in RAM:
> >>>
> >>> tmpfs /var/tmp/portagetmpfs
> >>> size=7000M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 tmpfs /
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 07:02:35 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> > Yes, and it's mounted ro to minimise the risk of such damage.
> I used to do this (keeping a rescue partitio) ... but found it was
> useful only some of the time. Nowadays I just leave a sysrescuecd USB
> key on top of the case :)
On 21/07/13 06:42, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:38:59 -0500, Bruce Hill wrote:
>
>>> A known, good kernel is not much help if your root filesystem is
>>> damaged, although I do make sure I always have at least one such
>>> kernel in /boot.
>
>> Thanks. I assume you must have a se
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:38:59 -0500, Bruce Hill wrote:
> > A known, good kernel is not much help if your root filesystem is
> > damaged, although I do make sure I always have at least one such
> > kernel in /boot.
> Thanks. I assume you must have a separate /boot partition in case "your
> root fil
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 11:20:30PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >
> > Would you mind a short HOW-TO for that, including {lilo,grub}.conf?
>
> http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Easy_install_SystemRescueCd_on_harddisk#Boot_the_ISO_image_from_the_disk_using_Grub2
>
> > And would this on
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:00:21 -0500, Bruce Hill wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:43:39PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >
> > How do you copy one to a stick when you need to rescue an unbootable
> > system? I prefer to keep the ISO in /boot, no need for a USB stick
> > then.
>
> Would you mind
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:43:39PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> How do you copy one to a stick when you need to rescue an unbootable
> system? I prefer to keep the ISO in /boot, no need for a USB stick then.
Would you mind a short HOW-TO for that, including {lilo,grub}.conf?
And would this on
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:50:29 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Neil, you know how payback is right? ROFL
That's the one with Mel Gibson?
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On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:26:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Remember, he's an Englishman and they don't do slapstick humour, they do
> clever and subtle humour.
Have you never seen Monty Python or The Goodies?
PS, let me know when you think this is getting off-topic...
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On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:50:47 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Changing the case of the b around is not going to change what space my
> data consumes or what a drive can hold.
No, but it does change the meaning of what you are saying it uses, and
invalidates your sig in the process :)
Remember *nix is case-
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 15:02:48 -0500, Dale wrote:
> I
> also keep the last two versions of sysrescue for my USB stick.
How do you copy one to a stick when you need to rescue an unbootable
system? I prefer to keep the ISO in /boot, no need for a USB stick then.
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pk wrote:
On 2013-07-20 13:59, luis jure wrote:
the average home user has lots of useless crap. i know
*i* do...
Yes, I do too... So the answer is smaller disks in order not to
accumulate so much crap! ;-)
Best regards
Peter K
I have to say, most of mine is useful stuff. I have smaller
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Saturday 20 Jul 2013 12:26:04 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Neil is jerking your chain :-)
Remember, he's an Englishman and they don't do slapstick humour, they do
clever and subtle humour.
I'm another, and I've been tempted to make the same observation as Neil did,
but I woul
On Jul 20, 2013 9:27 PM, "Tanstaafl" wrote:
>
> On 2013-07-19 3:02 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> I think you are. Unless you are moving massive terabytes of data
>> across your drive on a constant basis I would not worry about regular
>> everyday write activity being a problem.
>
>
> I have a que
On 2013-07-20 13:59, luis jure wrote:
>the average home user has lots of useless crap. i know
> *i* do...
Yes, I do too... So the answer is smaller disks in order not to
accumulate so much crap! ;-)
Best regards
Peter K
On 2013-07-19 3:02 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
I think you are. Unless you are moving massive terabytes of data
across your drive on a constant basis I would not worry about regular
everyday write activity being a problem.
I have a question regarding the use of SSDs in a VM SAN...
We are consider
On Saturday 20 Jul 2013 12:26:04 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Neil is jerking your chain :-)
>
> Remember, he's an Englishman and they don't do slapstick humour, they do
> clever and subtle humour.
I'm another, and I've been tempted to make the same observation as Neil did,
but I wouldn't have been s
on 2013-07-20 at 09:42 pk wrote:
> On 2013-07-20 01:23, luis jure wrote:
>
> > hehe... i guess neil meant that in average for each Tb you have in your
> > disk, only 125Mb is really important or useful. the rest is crap that
> > just piles up...
> >
>
> No, 1Tb = 125GB (note the difference betw
On 20/07/2013 01:03, Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:43:39 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>
>>> My /home is over 1Tb, that is Tb too. I'm not buying
>>> one big enough for all that.
>> 1Tb is only 125GB, well within the capacity of current SSDs :P
>>
>> Switching to an SSD, partic
On 2013-07-20 01:23, luis jure wrote:
> hehe... i guess neil meant that in average for each Tb you have in your
> disk, only 125Mb is really important or useful. the rest is crap that just
> piles up...
>
No, 1Tb = 125GB (note the difference between Tb = Tbit and TB=TByte)...
Best regards
Pete
from luis jure :
> on 2013-07-20 at 09:51 William Kenworthy wrote:
> You have to map the drive so grub can find it:
> no, i don't think that's the problem.
> the problem is that with GPT disks you need a BIOS Boot Partition since
> they don't have a MBR. is that correct?
Bruce Hill wrote:
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:34:27PM -0500, Dale wrote:
Stop using disk and build in RAM:
tmpfs /var/tmp/portagetmpfs size=7000M,nr_inodes=1M
0 0
tmpfs /dev/shmtmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec
0 0
wo
on 2013-07-20 at 09:51 William Kenworthy wrote:
> You have to map the drive so grub can find it:
no, i don't think that's the problem.
the problem is that with GPT disks you need a BIOS Boot Partition since
they don't have a MBR. is that correct?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Instal
On 19 July 2013, at 19:58, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:45:36 +0100, Mick wrote:
>
>> I have a MUCH smaller /home than Dale and on a new box I was thinking
>> of having it on a HDD, along with all things portage related.
>> … /home is written all the
>> time with mail and vario
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:34:27PM -0500, Dale wrote:
> > Stop using disk and build in RAM:
> >
> > tmpfs /var/tmp/portagetmpfs
> > size=7000M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0
> > tmpfs /dev/shmtmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec
> > 0 0
>
On 20 July 2013, at 00:03, Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:43:39 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>
>>> My /home is over 1Tb, that is Tb too. I'm not buying
>>> one big enough for all that.
>>
>> 1Tb is only 125GB, well within the capacity of current SSDs :P
>> ...
>
> Mine is m
On 20/07/13 07:44, luis jure wrote:
>
>
> from my recent experience, a caveat if you're using GPT to partition your
> disk and intend to boot from it: grub won't install on the disk (at least
> if you have an old plain BIOS system, i understand this doesn't happen with
> UEFI ??? ).
>
> when i t
Bruce Hill wrote:
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:58:59PM -0300, luis jure wrote:
i had a 30Tb partition for my system in my old HDD, and the breathing
space wasn't quite "plenty". often i found myself with less than the 6Gb
free required by libreoffice to compile, and i had to clean up a bit.
other
On Friday 19 Jul 2013 17:43:39 Dale wrote:
> luis jure wrote:
> > on 2013-07-19 at 01:56 Dale wrote:
> >> Do you really want to put /home on a SSD?
> >
> > well, not actually the whole /home, the SSD is too small for that. i'm
> > not sure yet, i might keep /home on a HDD and mount the partition o
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Bruce Hill
wrote:
> I won't buy any SATA
> mechanical drives except Hitachi.
Hitachi's storage division was sold off and split up last year. Their
2.5" HDD and SDD lines now belong to Western Digital (who continue to
sell the *Star models under the "HGST" brand n
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:58:59PM -0300, luis jure wrote:
>
> i had a 30Tb partition for my system in my old HDD, and the breathing
> space wasn't quite "plenty". often i found myself with less than the 6Gb
> free required by libreoffice to compile, and i had to clean up a bit.
> other than that
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:34:31PM -0300, luis jure wrote:
> on 2013-07-19 at 17:11 Bruce Hill wrote:
>
> > Do some meaningful benchmark...
> >
> > emerge -ajv app-benchmarks/bonnie++ && bonnie++ -d /tmp -u root
> >
> > then post us your output.
>
> mmm... /tmp is on the root partition that's o
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Dale wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:43:39 -0500, Dale wrote:
My /home is over 1Tb, that is Tb too. I'm not buying
one big enough for all that.
1Tb is only 125GB, well within the capacity of current SSDs :P
Switching t
on 2013-07-19 at 18:39 Dale wrote:
> Ahh, that makes sense. Thing is, I can't get rid of family photos or my
> videos. Nope, just ain't happening.
yeah, the same here... my 2Tb HD was almost full, so i bought a new 4Tb
disk. and it's a nice feeling having all that space free...
> I think I c
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:43:39 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>
>>> My /home is over 1Tb, that is Tb too. I'm not buying
>>> one big enough for all that.
>>
>> 1Tb is only 125GB, well within the capacity of current SSDs :P
>>
>> Switchin
luis jure wrote:
on 2013-07-19 at 18:39 Dale wrote:
I think I could get my OS on a 30Gb SSD with no problem and plenty of
breathing room.
i had a 30Tb partition for my system in my old HDD, and the breathing
space wasn't quite "plenty". often i found myself with less than the 6Gb
free require
from my recent experience, a caveat if you're using GPT to partition your
disk and intend to boot from it: grub won't install on the disk (at least
if you have an old plain BIOS system, i understand this doesn't happen with
UEFI ??? ).
when i tried to run grub2-install i got this error message:
luis jure wrote:
on 2013-07-19 at 18:03 Dale wrote:
Mine is mostly videos and some smaller amount of pics. 1 Tb is 125Gb?
1Tb is 1,000Gb or so.
hehe... i guess neil meant that in average for each Tb you have in your
disk, only 125Mb is really important or useful. the rest is crap that just
pi
luis jure wrote:
on 2013-07-19 at 12:47 Bruce Hill wrote:
The OCZs I've purchased have 3-5 year warranty, also. Most of the
mechanical hard drives you purchase today only have one year. I won't
buy any SATA mechanical drives except Hitachi.
i got 5 years on a 4Tb western digital caviar black i
on 2013-07-19 at 17:11 Bruce Hill wrote:
> Do some meaningful benchmark...
>
> emerge -ajv app-benchmarks/bonnie++ && bonnie++ -d /tmp -u root
>
> then post us your output.
mmm... /tmp is on the root partition that's only about 40 Gb (in my old
HDD / was 30Gb, and that was enough, but sometimes
on 2013-07-19 at 18:03 Dale wrote:
> Mine is mostly videos and some smaller amount of pics. 1 Tb is 125Gb?
> 1Tb is 1,000Gb or so.
hehe... i guess neil meant that in average for each Tb you have in your
disk, only 125Mb is really important or useful. the rest is crap that just
piles up...
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 06:29:21AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
>
> One "odd" condition I ran into twice with the ssd + btrfs were
> filesystems about half full but cant write to because the filesystem was
> full!
>
> After messy crashes it seemed like btrfs would "lose" some
> files/sectors/w
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:43:39 -0500, Dale wrote:
My /home is over 1Tb, that is Tb too. I'm not buying
one big enough for all that.
1Tb is only 125GB, well within the capacity of current SSDs :P
Switching to an SSD, particularly on a laptop where you can't add a
second driv
On 20/07/13 00:43, Dale wrote:
> luis jure wrote:
>> on 2013-07-19 at 01:56 Dale wrote:
>>
>>> Do you really want to put /home on a SSD?
>> well, not actually the whole /home, the SSD is too small for that. i'm
>> not
>> sure yet, i might keep /home on a HDD and mount the partition on the
>> SSD as
hi, i just booted my "new" system. migration using rsync was smooth. i had
to fight a little with grub2 and gpt, but now it seems everything is
working fine.
the system has been up just a few minutes, so i haven't had time to do
much. but i tried eix-sync and it seemed to me it went much faster.
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 07:00:59PM -0300, luis jure wrote:
>
> the system has been up just a few minutes, so i haven't had time to do
> much. but i tried eix-sync and it seemed to me it went much faster. also
> libreoffice opened in i think less than 2 seconds, instead of several
> seconds like in
on 2013-07-19 at 12:47 Bruce Hill wrote:
> The OCZs I've purchased have 3-5 year warranty, also. Most of the
> mechanical hard drives you purchase today only have one year. I won't
> buy any SATA mechanical drives except Hitachi.
i got 5 years on a 4Tb western digital caviar black i bought a coup
luis jure wrote:
on 2013-07-19 at 01:56 Dale wrote:
Do you really want to put /home on a SSD?
well, not actually the whole /home, the SSD is too small for that. i'm not
sure yet, i might keep /home on a HDD and mount the partition on the SSD as
a directory under /home for some special uses. or
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Friday 19 Jul 2013 17:43:39 Dale wrote:
>> luis jure wrote:
>> > on 2013-07-19 at 01:56 Dale wrote:
>> >> Do you really want to put /home on a SSD?
>> >
>> > well, not actually the whole /home, the SSD is too small for that. i'm
>> > not sure yet,
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:43:39 -0500, Dale wrote:
> My /home is over 1Tb, that is Tb too. I'm not buying
> one big enough for all that.
1Tb is only 125GB, well within the capacity of current SSDs :P
Switching to an SSD, particularly on a laptop where you can't add a
second drive, really helps you
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:45:36 +0100, Mick wrote:
> I have a MUCH smaller /home than Dale and on a new box I was thinking
> of having it on a HDD, along with all things portage related. I
> typically resync 3 -4 times a week but I am not sure how much
> erase/write cycles this represents. Also, /h
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 03:55:37AM -0500, Dale wrote:
>
> Now I really feel about better getting one. That was my concern and
> reason for the question. I'm sure /home gets its share of reads and
> writes and was thinking the writes would cause a problem over time.
> Maybe they are better now
on 2013-07-19 at 01:56 Dale wrote:
> Do you really want to put /home on a SSD?
well, not actually the whole /home, the SSD is too small for that. i'm not
sure yet, i might keep /home on a HDD and mount the partition on the SSD as
a directory under /home for some special uses. or the other way aro
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Dale wrote:
> Do you really want to put /home on a SSD?
My first step into SSD on my desktop was to put everything-but-home
onto it. I left home on a HDD. Speedup was very noticeable! Especially
portage-related things were very much faster (accessing thousands of
On 07/19/2013 11:33:33 AM, Randolph Maaßen wrote:
2013/7/19 Dale
>
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> SSDs are not like USB flash drives, and it's been years since I
managed
>> to wear one of those out (mainly due to a kernel bug). They have
>> lifetimes similar to spinny disks these days.
Perhaps t
2013/7/19 Dale
>
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 03:22:11 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>
> Do you really want to put /home on a SSD?
Why not?
/home is the most frequently-read directory on most systems, and SSD
is ideal for that.
If you are concerned
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 03:22:11 -0500, Dale wrote:
Do you really want to put /home on a SSD?
Why not?
/home is the most frequently-read directory on most systems, and SSD
is ideal for that.
If you are concerned about wear-levelling, /home is not the danger
point
Interestin
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 03:22:11 -0500, Dale wrote:
> >> Do you really want to put /home on a SSD?
> >
> > Why not?
> >
> > /home is the most frequently-read directory on most systems, and SSD
> > is ideal for that.
> >
> > If you are concerned about wear-levelling, /home is not the danger
> > point
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On 19/07/2013 08:56, Dale wrote:
luis jure wrote:
hello list,
i want to migrate my system, currently in a HD, to a new SSD. i
thought it
would be easy, but i decided to read a little before partitioning the
disk
(my first SDD) and now i'm really confused...
i intend to ha
On 19/07/2013 08:56, Dale wrote:
> luis jure wrote:
>>
>> hello list,
>>
>> i want to migrate my system, currently in a HD, to a new SSD. i
>> thought it
>> would be easy, but i decided to read a little before partitioning the
>> disk
>> (my first SDD) and now i'm really confused...
>>
>> i intend
luis jure wrote:
hello list,
i want to migrate my system, currently in a HD, to a new SSD. i thought it
would be easy, but i decided to read a little before partitioning the disk
(my first SDD) and now i'm really confused...
i intend to have only two partitions in the SSD: one for / and the ot
2013/7/19 luis jure
> on 2013-07-18 at 23:40 Davide De Prisco wrote:
>
>
> > I created partitions with fdisk and then I usually push all in with dd
> > from the old disk. For the grub you can install it like a normal disk.
>
> did you use GPT or plain old MBR? so there's nothing special with grub
on 2013-07-18 at 17:23 Paul Hartman wrote:
> Hi!
hi paul, thanks for your detailed answer!
> 1. partition SSD (start sector at a multiple of 1MB to ensure proper
> alignment) 2. format new partitions using discard-capable filesystem
> like ext4, xfs, btrfs
yes and yes (using ext4)
> 4. rsync
On 19/07/13 06:23, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:22 PM, luis jure wrote:
>>
>>
>> hello list,
>
> Hi!
>
>> i want to migrate my system, currently in a HD, to a new SSD. i thought it
>> would be easy, but i decided to read a little before partitioning the disk
>> (my first SDD)
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:22 PM, luis jure wrote:
>
>
> hello list,
Hi!
> i want to migrate my system, currently in a HD, to a new SSD. i thought it
> would be easy, but i decided to read a little before partitioning the disk
> (my first SDD) and now i'm really confused...
>
> i intend to have o
on 2013-07-18 at 23:40 Davide De Prisco wrote:
> I created partitions with fdisk and then I usually push all in with dd
> from the old disk. For the grub you can install it like a normal disk.
did you use GPT or plain old MBR? so there's nothing special with grub and
gpt partitioned disks?
than
I used ssd from workstation to server. I created partitions with fdisk and
then I usually push all in with dd from the old disk. For the grub you can
install it like a normal disk. If you want you can install a new system and
then copy the home directory. The only directory that you can put on a
no
hello list,
i want to migrate my system, currently in a HD, to a new SSD. i thought it
would be easy, but i decided to read a little before partitioning the disk
(my first SDD) and now i'm really confused...
i intend to have only two partitions in the SSD: one for / and the other
for /home. i h
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