Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> dwain wrote:
>
>> I am planning on adding a third hard drive to my mix. I will be buying
>> 2 new larger ones, one for root and one for home and i would like to use
>> the third one as a swap drive.
>>
>>
> Swap is typically 2x your RAM. I haven't seen a HD available that small
> for long time. Just provide a swap partition, typically 1-2 GB, but
> more if needed, on your root drive.
>
>> Would it be best not to use the third one as a swap drive and leave the
>> swap drive on the root drive?
>>
>>
> Yes. Not sure what size drives you are talking about (why you are
> buying 2 but adding only a 3rd?), but the smallest you can buy at my
> local supplier now is 80 GB, way too much for swap.
>
I am replacing a 13GB drive and a 4GB drive with 2 40GB 7200rpm drives.
I had intended to use a 2GB drive that I have for the swap drive. The
reason I'm using 40GB drives is that that's all the drive my BIOS on
this old machine will handle. Besides, I don't need a larger drive than
40GB.
>> I also want to copy my home drive to the new larger drive. Are there
>> any issues I need to be aware of that could cause some problems with
>> regard to data access and such?
>>
>>
> No, you will find this a much more friendly activity in linux than you
> were used to in Windows.
>
Glad to know this, I guess that a select all and move/copy to the new
drive is all that is needed?
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