Re: [gentoo-user] TWO (probably stupid) questions about partitions

2005-08-12 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
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

Re: [gentoo-user] TWO (probably stupid) questions about partitions

2005-08-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
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

Re: [gentoo-user] TWO (probably stupid) questions about partitions

2005-08-12 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
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

[gentoo-user] TWO (probably stupid) questions about partitions

2005-08-11 Thread Fernando Meira
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

Re: [gentoo-user] TWO (probably stupid) questions about partitions

2005-08-11 Thread Mauro Faccenda
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] TWO (probably stupid) questions about partitions

2005-08-11 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
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

Re: [gentoo-user] TWO (probably stupid) questions about partitions

2005-08-11 Thread Fernando Meira
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

Re: [gentoo-user] TWO (probably stupid) questions about partitions

2005-08-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
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