On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:28:56 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Dale Snell wrote: > > > BTW, you might want to invest in one of those little 2.5" hard drive > > enclosures that hook up to USB. That way you could check the drive > > from your regular system, without having to open it up. > > :-) I highly recommend them, especially if you've got a laptop. > > I have a unit that lets me attach 3.5", 2.5" and SATA drives to a > USB port. But, I ain't gonna' take apart the new laptop. I can understand that. :-) > For the past 3/4-hour the laptop's been formatting sda1 checking > for bad blocks. I re-partitioned it so sda1 (/) is 200G at ext3, sda2 > (swap) is 100M, and sda3 (/home) is 299G of ext3. I'm sure the latter > will run overnight. :-) Oh, yeah. > As long as sda1 is formatted and ext3 is put on it I am confident > that there will be sufficient room for the OS. I switched from Red > Hat to Slackware in 2003 and this is the first time I've had a new > drive tell me there's insufficient space to load the OS. 300 Gig is *oodles* of space for your system. Heck, 30 Gig is plenty. I have a 34 Gig partition for my laptop's system (Fedora 16), and I'm using just under half of it. The rest of the 100 Gig drive goes to /home, /opt, /usr/local, and misc data storage. --Dale -- A long-forgotten loved one will appear soon. Buy the negatives at any price. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
