swapping partitions is not as hard as it would seem at the outset, I have done it many times.
Some Tips.....: - If you are not putting windows on the 100gb drive, you can benefit by putting the swap part at the start of the drive where things will be faster. if you want windows on the drive as well, it will have to go first as it probably won't see the rest of the drive otherwise. - Don't put the 100gb drive on the same bus as any slower drive or cdrom/burner/dvd to get best performance.. How to swap a partition.....: use diskdrake after you have installed the 100gb and create the swap partition you desire. Then edit /etc/fstab so that it points the swap to the new drive/partition. The line in fstab for my swap looks like this: /dev/hda9 swap swap defaults 0 0 so if I were moving it to a different drive/partition, (say for example first partition on the secondary master drive.. I'd change it to this: /dev/hdc1 swap swap defaults 0 0 drives appear to linux like so: primary master = hda primary slave = hdb secondary master = hdc secondary slave = hdd so you can easily work out what you need to change in fstab. Once that is done, you can restart the machine, and bobs your uncle.. If all is well, use diskdrake to delete the old swap and make yourself a fat32 partition with it or something. regards Franki -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Sent: Tuesday, 1 July 2003 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Suggestions for Mandrake 9.1 Disk Partitions for Music Workstation On Monday 30 June 2003 09:48 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > Just make sure that you give yourself a large enough SWAP partition - > about equivalent to your existing RAM. while that subject has been brought up......how hard is it to go and move my swap partition from one hard drive to another? i've got md9.1 installed on my 20gb hard drive (taking up 15gb of space) and i'd like to put my swap partition on my 100gb hard drive (and it's a faster hard drive too, so that's an even bigger bonus). if it's relatively easy to do (i'm 100% new here, so it's gotta be VERY simple or it'll have to wait til i learn a lot more), i'll move the swap partition over and enlarge it. my swap partition is i think 495mb right now (i let linux do it's own partitioning when i installed, i didn't mess with it), i'd like to make it a little larger, as i've heard to make it double the size of your physical ram, so that'd be a 1.5gb swap partition. thanks for any help! Mike
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