Re: new disk layout

2009-07-08 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Bill Davidsen wrote: Roberto Ragusa wrote: The decision to not save buffers and cached is debatable. Even if it is memory which can be read again from the disk, it is MUCH faster to read from the swap image in a contiguous fashion, than to seek everywhere for minutes after a suspend. That

Re: new disk layout

2009-07-06 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Bill Davidsen wrote: In suspend to disk, see the output of the 'free' command. The data in the 'buffers' and 'cached' need not be saved, the buffers are written to the filesystem and the cached data are discarded. So the room you really need is the swap in use plus the memory in use. And it

Re: new disk layout

2009-07-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
Roberto Ragusa wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: In suspend to disk, see the output of the 'free' command. The data in the 'buffers' and 'cached' need not be saved, the buffers are written to the filesystem and the cached data are discarded. So the room you really need is the swap in use plus the

Re: new disk layout

2009-07-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tim wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 23:14 +0700, muhammad panji wrote: 2 G of swap is enough If you want to do suspend to disc, you need swap space at least as large as your RAM, as that's where it dumps a copy of memory to while suspending. Let me clarify a tad, this is a bit more complex

Re: new disk layout

2009-07-03 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 07/01/2009 03:28 PM, Mick M. wrote: Hi; I would like some input on disk partitions. I bought a 1TB sata drive, it works fine, At the moment my system has 3 drives 1 160M IDE and 2 sata 250M and 1TB. The IDE is for XP, as it will not see the SATA drives. I want to remove the IDE drive

Re: new disk layout

2009-07-03 Thread muhammad panji
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Mick M.off_b...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi;  I would like some input on disk partitions. I bought a 1TB sata drive, it works fine, At the moment my system has 3 drives 1 160M IDE and 2 sata 250M and 1TB. The IDE is for XP, as it will not see the SATA drives. I

RE: new disk layout

2009-07-03 Thread Paul
-Original Message- From: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of muhammad panji Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 9:14 AM To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: new disk layout On Thu, Jul 2, 2009

Re: new disk layout

2009-07-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
muhammad panji wrote: On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Mick M.off_b...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi; I would like some input on disk partitions. I bought a 1TB sata drive, it works fine, At the moment my system has 3 drives 1 160M IDE and 2 sata 250M and 1TB. The IDE is for XP, as it will not see the

Re: new disk layout

2009-07-03 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 23:14 +0700, muhammad panji wrote: 2 G of swap is enough If you want to do suspend to disc, you need swap space at least as large as your RAM, as that's where it dumps a copy of memory to while suspending. If you don't want to suspend to disc, then you can size your swap

Re: new disk layout

2009-07-03 Thread Mick M.
On 07/01/2009 03:28 PM, Mick M. wrote: Hi;    I would like some input on disk partitions. I bought a 1TB sata drive, it works fine, At the moment my system has 3 drives 1 160M IDE and 2 sata 250M and 1TB. The IDE is for XP, as it will not see the SATA drives. I want to remove

Re: new disk layout

2009-07-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mick M. wrote: Hi; I would like some input on disk partitions. I bought a 1TB sata drive, it works fine, At the moment my system has 3 drives 1 160M IDE and 2 sata 250M and 1TB. The IDE is for XP, as it will not see the SATA drives. I want to remove the IDE drive and install XPx64 on the new

new disk layout

2009-07-01 Thread Mick M.
Hi; I would like some input on disk partitions. I bought a 1TB sata drive, it works fine, At the moment my system has 3 drives 1 160M IDE and 2 sata 250M and 1TB. The IDE is for XP, as it will not see the SATA drives. I want to remove the IDE drive and install XPx64 on the new drive as a