Fernando Meira wrote:
Hi Francesco,
thanks for your reply.
You gave me a new idea.
I can't create 2 partition as you proposed, but only one. This because I
already have 3 primary and 1 extended. Yes.. big mess.. have to fix it
later...
So, what I will do is this:
- leave around 32M in
Fernando Meira wrote:
- move the system from hda4 to hda1, the way you said. BTW, cp
-a or rsync would get better results?
Better use tar, thru the buffering it moves data in bigger chunks:
less seeks, much quicker. At least, copying /usr/portage was five
times faster with tar than with cp
Benno Schulenberg wrote:
Fernando Meira wrote:
- move the system from hda4 to hda1, the way you said. BTW, cp
-a or rsync would get better results?
Better use tar, thru the buffering it moves data in bigger chunks:
less seeks, much quicker. At least, copying /usr/portage was five
Hi,
this is how my disk is divided:
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot
Start
End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1
*
1 1275
10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2
1276 4208
23559322+ f W95 Ext'd
Fernando Meira wrote:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 1276 4208 23559322+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3 4209 4271 506047+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda4 4272 4864 4763272+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 1276 4208 23559291 b W95 FAT32
[...]
1.
Fernando Meira wrote:
Hi,
this is how my disk is divided:
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1
Hi Francesco,
thanks for your reply.
You gave me a new idea.
I can't create 2 partition as you proposed, but only one. This because
I already have 3 primary and 1 extended. Yes.. big mess.. have to fix
it later...
So, what I will do is this:
- leave around 32M in the beginning of the disk for a
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:09:38 +, Fernando Meira wrote:
Now I want to clean hda1 (which has windows) and mount there /usr and
point $PORTAGE_TMPDIR there (because my gentoo system, in hda4, run out
of space). Once I'm doing this, I could split that partition into
smaller ones (e.g. to
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