-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On January 29, 2004 11:46, Jon Copeland wrote: > I have 2 HD's in my PC, one is a 5400rpm drive and the other is a > 7200rpm drive, currently the OS is sitting on the 5400rpm drive and i'd > like to take advantage of the slight increase in speed that the 7200rpm > drive offers. The 7200rpm drive is empty and both HD's are 40Gig's. > Whats the best way of transferring *.* from the 5400rpm drive to the > 7200rpm drive without this becoming a hassle?
hrm... not directly answering your question here, i know, but.... will you actually see any benefit from having the OS on the faster drive? if you use HUGE binaries (like OpenOffice) then moving that to a faster drive might provide some noticeable improvements in start up time (as the binary needs to be read from disk) ... but other than that there's probably very little that moving the whole OS over to a slightly faster disk will help with. you may not even notice the difference for non-huge binaries, actually. and how much faster is the other disk? what does `hdparm -t $DISK_DEVICE; hdparm -T $DISK_DEVICE` give on each of the disks device files? IMHO, a more useful and definite speed up would be to move directories with lots of writing onto a SEPARATE disk from the OS, to take advantage of separate spindles. in fact, here's what i'd personally do: 5400RPM: OS and SWAP 7400RPM: /home, /var, /tmp this will separate your data and your swap, and will put the parts of the filesystem that see the most usage (both read and write) on a separate disk from more static (and less time sensitive) data. if you don't want three partitions on the 7400RPM drive, you could make one for home and one for /var and /tmp with a symlink from /var/tmp to /tmp (for instance).. or you could make just one and symlink /var and /tmp into subdirs of /home (not that i'd really recommend that, though =) - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 while (!horse()); cart(); -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAGsB01rcusafx20MRAtL3AKCmD1RDDdDAbW1rHSYV4ev0P9m8rQCePERZ +LPeC3bG3HRahQ6gA2tP5h4= =L9D4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
