On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Nikos Alexandris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 07:19 -0700, Dylan Beaudette wrote: >> > Partitions: >> > Do you keep your geo-data in a separate partition? I suppose yes. >> Have >> > you split further your partition based on other criteria, always >> related >> > with "working with geospatial data"? >> >> I like putting all of my GRASS data on a seperate disk-- so that IO >> intensive operations on GIS data do not slow my machine to a crawl. >> Alternatively a scratch disk for the /tmp/ folder might be nice too. > > Dylan, could you please explain the "scratch disk"? > > Thank you, Nikos
Right- I was thinking about an extra disk used for temporary operations, such as GRASS temp files, etc. It could very well be the same disk that GRASS Data is stored on, but separate from the disk where the operating system resides. In this way I/O-bound operations on GRASS data would not impair the use of other programs. Dylan _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
