swap space and hd partitioning
Hi, I've got a couple of questions regarding hd partitions and swap space. My first, immediate problem is that I've just upgraded my RAM from 1.5GB to 3GB. I'm running some numerical simulations and analysis that require that much space or more. My swap partition is 1.95GB, and I've discovered that when I've got lots of simulation data in memory I don't have enough space to hibernate. Reading the Debian Reference, I see the advice to keep to 2GB or less for each swap partition, but to have at least 1x RAM. In my case, where I'm using a lot of RAM and I want to be able to hibernate, can I just set up a second 2GB swap partition, or should I make a single large swap partition of 3-4GB? I'm not sure how hibernate and swapping work with multiple swap partitions. The other, slightly less pressing question, is that I've been dual booting up to now, and so have quite a fragmented harddrive. In order to make enough space for the extra swap I'm going to have to further cut into my windows partition, to the point that I might as well just blow it away (haven't booted into it in months). Is there a way to reorganize my file system more elegant than simply backing everything up and reinstalling the OS? The current layout, as reported by gparted: /dev/sda1 - 14GB Windows /dev/sda4 - 41GB extended /dev/sda5 - 1.95GB swap /dev/sda8 - 7GB /home/tyler/photos/ /dev/sda6 - 26GB /home /dev/sda7 - 6GB / I'm not sure why the partitions are out of order, but the last alteration I did, increasing the extended and a few contained partitions at the expense of windows and the pre-installed recovery partition, managed to re-order all the partitions, such that fstab and menu.lst couldn't find anything until I reinstalled grub from a live cd. My current fstab and menu.lst are pasted below, just for completeness. Thanks for any suggestions! Tyler # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/sda7 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/sda6 /home ext3defaults0 2 /dev/sda8 /home/tyler/photos ext3defaults0 2 /dev/sda5 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hda/media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /home/tyler/jumpdrive vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/windowsntfs noauto,ro,users,noexec,umask=000 0 0 timeout 5 color cyan/blue white/blue foreground ff background 0639a1 title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-686 root(hd0,6) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/sda7 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686 title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-686 (single-user mode) root(hd0,6) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/sda7 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686 title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.22-3-686 root(hd0,6) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-3-686 root=/dev/sda7 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-686 savedefault title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.22-3-686 (single-user mode) root(hd0,6) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-3-686 root=/dev/sda7 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-686 savedefault title Microsoft Windows XP Professional at sda1 rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title MEMTEST kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST ## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified ## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below ## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs ## ## Start Default Options ## ## default kernel options ## default kernel options for automagic boot options ## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z ## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted. ## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro ## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro ## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro # kopt=root=/dev/sda7 ro ## default grub root device ## e.g. groot=(hd0,0) # groot=(hd0,6) ## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options ## e.g. alternative=true ## alternative=false # alternative=true ## should update-grub lock alternative automagic boot options ## e.g. lockalternative=true ## lockalternative=false # lockalternative=false ## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the ## alternatives ## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5 # defoptions= ## should update-grub lock old automagic boot options ## e.g. lockold=false ## lockold=true # lockold=false ## Xen hypervisor options to use with the default Xen boot option # xenhopt= ## Xen Linux kernel options to use with the default Xen boot option # xenkopt=console=tty0 ## altoption boot targets option
Re: how to determine hd partitioning?
On January 20, 2003 02:32 pm, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: Only problem is... the disk is a 40GB drive, and this older machine can only handle drives up to 32GB. While I can see the partitioning and access a good portion of the disk, I cannot get a large chunk of the data off it that I need. I guess that'll teach me to back up to a hard drive (instead of removable media)... Check if your motherboard manufacturer has BIOS updates for your board. When I recently ran into the same problem I was pleasantly surprised to find out that ASUS had updates available to support large drives even though the board was approaching 4 years of age (perhaps even 5). Fraser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-- Fraser Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Wednesday, 22 January 2003, 01:19 PM -0500): On January 20, 2003 02:32 pm, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: Only problem is... the disk is a 40GB drive, and this older machine can only handle drives up to 32GB. While I can see the partitioning and access a good portion of the disk, I cannot get a large chunk of the data off it that I need. I guess that'll teach me to back up to a hard drive (instead of removable media)... Check if your motherboard manufacturer has BIOS updates for your board. When I recently ran into the same problem I was pleasantly surprised to find out that ASUS had updates available to support large drives even though the board was approaching 4 years of age (perhaps even 5). I was just about to reply to the list... I needed, in order to get my alsa, lirc, and another driver working, to compile a new kernel. As it turned out, when I started poking around in my /boot directory, I discovered a number of inconsistencies -- the System.map file was linking to a System.map from several kernels previous, the wrong initrd.img was being used, etc. I installed the new kernel, resolved these problems, and voila! the disk worked fine! No need for a BIOS update -- while the BIOS won't recognize the drive unless it's reporting a size of 32GB (there's a jumper for this; if I don't have it on, the computer won't even boot), linux recognizes it fine, now. Thanks for all the tips, everyone! -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://weierophinney.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to determine hd partitioning?
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 18:30:24 -0500 Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night, and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard drive. I've thrown it into my older machine, and it's being recognized fine as /dev/hdd -- but I can't remember its partitioning scheme, and thus don't know what partition(s) to mount and what fs they each use (it had dual-booted windows and debian before, hence the need for both partition and fs-type). How can I determine the drive's partition scheme? Like the rest said, I think it's trial and error this time... But next time you can _label_ you're ext(2|3) partitions with 'e2label' or 'tune2fs -L'. This than will show up in cfdisk and friends. You can also use these labels in /etc/fstab instead of device names. This is really handy if you swap your ide connectors. Now the partition has changed name from/dev/hda1 to/dev/hdc1 for example, but has still the same label name and will still be mounted on the right mount point. grts Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to determine hd partitioning?
-- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Sunday, 19 January 2003, 06:30 PM -0500): I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night, and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard drive. I've thrown it into my older machine, and it's being recognized fine as /dev/hdd -- but I can't remember its partitioning scheme, and thus don't know what partition(s) to mount and what fs they each use (it had dual-booted windows and debian before, hence the need for both partition and fs-type). How can I determine the drive's partition scheme? Thanks to everyone who responded to this -- I was able to see the partitioning using fdisk. Only problem is... the disk is a 40GB drive, and this older machine can only handle drives up to 32GB. While I can see the partitioning and access a good portion of the disk, I cannot get a large chunk of the data off it that I need. I guess that'll teach me to back up to a hard drive (instead of removable media)... -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to determine hd partitioning?
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:32:54PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Sunday, 19 January 2003, 06:30 PM -0500): I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night, and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard drive. I've thrown it into my older machine, and it's being recognized fine as /dev/hdd -- but I can't remember its partitioning scheme, and thus don't know what partition(s) to mount and what fs they each use (it had dual-booted windows and debian before, hence the need for both partition and fs-type). How can I determine the drive's partition scheme? Thanks to everyone who responded to this -- I was able to see the partitioning using fdisk. and as for figuring which partition was mounted where, once you find your root partition, locate mount/etc/fstab, and it should answer most of your questions. -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #103 from Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Trying to CREATE A CRONTAB FOR THE LAST DAY OF THE MONTH? Best to put all the logic within the crontab itself (a Good Thing, since you then only have to look in one place to find it): 1 0 28-31 * * [ $(date +%d -d +1day) -eq 1 ] /path/to/script args Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to determine hd partitioning?
I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night, and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard drive. I've thrown it into my older machine, and it's being recognized fine as /dev/hdd -- but I can't remember its partitioning scheme, and thus don't know what partition(s) to mount and what fs they each use (it had dual-booted windows and debian before, hence the need for both partition and fs-type). How can I determine the drive's partition scheme? TIA, -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to determine hd partitioning?
hi ya assuming your disk is intact fdisk -l /dev/hdd and add/guess which partitions belong to which mountpoint mount /dev/hdd1 /mnt/test ls -la /mnt/test to guess if its /var or /usr or /home umount /mnt/test ... when you're all done fdisk -l /dev/hdd /etc/safe-place/rc.parition.txt cat /etc/fstab /etc/safe-place/rc.partiton.txt ( a [cr/h]acker might wanna casue you grief w/o doing rm -rf ) c ya alvin On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night, and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard drive. I've thrown it into my older machine, and it's being recognized fine as /dev/hdd -- but I can't remember its partitioning scheme, and thus don't know what partition(s) to mount and what fs they each use (it had dual-booted windows and debian before, hence the need for both partition and fs-type). How can I determine the drive's partition scheme? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to determine hd partitioning?
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:30:24PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night, and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard drive. I've thrown it into my older machine, and it's being recognized fine as /dev/hdd -- but I can't remember its partitioning scheme, and thus don't know what partition(s) to mount and what fs they each use (it had dual-booted windows and debian before, hence the need for both partition and fs-type). This is why I write down the partitioning scheme on a scrap of paper and tape it to the *inside* of the case access panel (or just write it in pencil on the inside of the panel itself). How can I determine the drive's partition scheme? Trial and error at this point. cfdisk will tell you the partition type and size, which might give you some clues. Good luck! -- .''`. Baloo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system msg25039/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how to determine hd partitioning?
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 06:08:13AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:30:24PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night, and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard drive. I've thrown it into my older machine, and it's being recognized fine as /dev/hdd -- but I can't remember its partitioning scheme, and thus don't know what partition(s) to mount and what fs they each use (it had dual-booted windows and debian before, hence the need for both partition and fs-type). How can I determine the drive's partition scheme? cfdisk should list partitions? hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to determine hd partitioning?
on Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:30:24PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night, and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard drive. I've thrown it into my older machine, and it's being recognized fine as /dev/hdd -- but I can't remember its partitioning scheme, and thus don't know what partition(s) to mount and what fs they each use (it had dual-booted windows and debian before, hence the need for both partition and fs-type). How can I determine the drive's partition scheme? gpart may be able to help you. If you remember the partition sizes, you can try rebuilding the partition table and mounting filesystems *READ ONLY*, which may succeed in recovering some (or all) of your partitions. This is not quite as improbable as it sounds. This is also a very good illustration of why you should keep vital system information in a save place (preferably hardcopy and/or a remotely accessible system). I use a script system-info to provide this and other data: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Download/system-info Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to determine hd partitioning?
on Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 06:08:13AM +, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: on Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:30:24PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night, and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard drive. I've thrown it into my older machine, and it's being recognized fine as /dev/hdd -- but I can't remember its partitioning scheme, and thus don't know what partition(s) to mount and what fs they each use (it had dual-booted windows and debian before, hence the need for both partition and fs-type). How can I determine the drive's partition scheme? gpart may be able to help you. Doh! I'd skimmed Matthew's email and assumed he'd *damaged* the disk somehow. Not. If you're just trying to read the partition table off a disk, fdisk, cfdisk, or any other full-featured partitioning tool should be able to read it. That's what the system-info script (below) does. That said: Print out the table, post it to your website, etc. If you remember the partition sizes, you can try rebuilding the partition table and mounting filesystems *READ ONLY*, which may succeed in recovering some (or all) of your partitions. This is not quite as improbable as it sounds. This is also a very good illustration of why you should keep vital system information in a save place (preferably hardcopy and/or a remotely accessible system). I use a script system-info to provide this and other data: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Download/system-info Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Advice on HD partitioning
Goal: Gain experience with two different distros yet maintain a usable machine under both of these distros. Plan: Install a 20GB hard disk and partition it as shown below: +---+---+ | swap | 512MB | +---+---+ | /home | 3GB | +---+---+ | / for stable Debian | 4GB | +---+---| | / for stable Mandrake | 4GB | +---+---+ | / for play Debian | 4GB | +---+---+ | / for play Mandrake | 4GB | +---+---+ My plan was based on the assumptions that (1) all distros use the same file system, so /home can always be mounted (2) the swap space gets reinitialize on every reboot (3) LILO can be used to select which partition to boot from and can be set up correctly from any of the OS versions This should not be rocket science, but I've been bit enough before while playing with simple, obvious things that I'd like to know ahead of time if there are there flies lurking in the ointment here and fix them up front. Cheers and thanks -rick attachment: winmail.dat
Re: Advice on HD partitioning
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 08:51:41AM -0800, Rick Commo wrote: Goal: Gain experience with two different distros yet maintain a usable machine under both of these distros. Plan: Install a 20GB hard disk and partition it as shown below: +---+---+ | swap | 512MB | +---+---+ | /home | 3GB | +---+---+ | / for stable Debian | 4GB | +---+---| | / for stable Mandrake | 4GB | +---+---+ | / for play Debian | 4GB | +---+---+ | / for play Mandrake | 4GB | +---+---+ My plan was based on the assumptions that (1) all distros use the same file system, so /home can always be mounted (2) the swap space gets reinitialize on every reboot (3) LILO can be used to select which partition to boot from and can be set up correctly from any of the OS versions This should not be rocket science, but I've been bit enough before while playing with simple, obvious things that I'd like to know ahead of time if there are there flies lurking in the ointment here and fix them up front. (1) Yes you can mount /home whether debian or mandrake and can share that partition. (2) Yes you can share the swap partition, it is reinitialized. (3) You can set up lilo from any of the distros and boot to whichever setup you want but just to be clear you setup lilo on *one* of the OS versions. hth, kent -- I'd really love ta wana help ya Flanders but... Homer Simpson
Re: Advice on HD partitioning
Rick Commo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goal: Gain experience with two different distros yet maintain a usable machine under both of these distros. Plan: Install a 20GB hard disk and partition it as shown below: -- Detailed partition layout snipped -- You should have no problem with this setup. I have a similar setup, except it is spread over three hard drives, and the partition sizes are quite different. I have a Woody partition, a Potato partition, backup partitions for each, a /local partition that is symlinked to my home directory, and a large /usr/local partition, primarily for building my packages. I also have a DOS 6.22 partition and an WIN95 partition. I can boot into any of these partitions using GRUB, and my home and /usr/local are mounted in any of the Linux partitions. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Is this smart HD partitioning?
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:42:57 +0800, Hans van den Boogert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I find that the hard drive is constantly accessed and reset. I mean that it seems the disk is being accessed for a second, then goes back to inactivity with an almost crackling noise. This most likely is the harddisk recalibrating itself. Some HD's do that more often than others, and especially laptop HD's appear to exhibit this annoying behaviour. I have two harddisks for my laptop, an IBM and a Toshiba, and both do this (the Toshiba the worst). Gertjan.
Is this smart HD partitioning?
My Acer Travelmate 512T laptop (Celeron 366, 96 MB RAM), has a 4.6 GB IBM hard drive in it. I partitioned it as follows... /dev/hda1 primary Fat32 (1000M) /dev/hda5 logical Fat32 (900M) /dev/hda6 logical Fat32 (800M) /dev/hda7 logical Linux (1000M) /dev/hda4 primary Linux ext2 (840M) /dev/hda3 primary Linux swap (100M) Now I find that the hard drive is constantly accessed and reset. I mean that it seems the disk is being accessed for a second, then goes back to inactivity with an almost crackling noise. If the disk was reading data this would seem normal, but it happens out of the blue, while there is no process running that requires disk access. This happens both under Linux as well as Win98, but it is more pronounced under Linux. I was wondering if it could be because the partitioning I did was too minute. My idea was to keep all the Fat32 partitions on one side of the disk, all the Linux partitions on the other. I was thinking myself to re-partition as follows, just to experiment... /dev/hda1 primary Fat32 (1000M) /dev/hda2 primary Fat32 (1700M) /dev/hda3 primary Linux ext2 (1840M) /dev/hda4 primary Linux swap (100M) I have a similar partitioning scheme on my desktop and it works fine. Still I want to check with you guys first to see if I am on the right train of thoughts. -- Hans
Re: Is this smart HD partitioning?
/dev/hda1 primary Fat32 (1000M) /dev/hda5 logical Fat32 (900M) /dev/hda6 logical Fat32 (800M) /dev/hda7 logical Linux (1000M) /dev/hda4 primary Linux ext2 (840M) /dev/hda3 primary Linux swap (100M) Seems ok, but you dont need 100M swap with 96M of Ram that you have already, unless you know you will be doing some heavy memory-eating work. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://scorpio.myip.org--Apache server on my machine. ---
RE: Is this smart HD partitioning?
From looking at this I and what the sound is I take a stab at this: The crackling sound sounds like the scan that updates your find dB. When you do a find on your computer it checks this dB for locations of things(to be simple). Anyway I think you Linux parts are too big, hence it seems as if it locking up. I had this problem. I would split /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda4 into different partitions such as: / root partition 60M /var60M /usr860M /usr/local 860M or something like that. This also will give you added safety incase of a crash or just stupidity that occasionally creeps into everyone. Gladly I know nothing about the win98 stuff but I assume it along that same lines as a find scan, but I give that to someone else -Original Message- From: Hans van den Boogert [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 8:43 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Is this smart HD partitioning? My Acer Travelmate 512T laptop (Celeron 366, 96 MB RAM), has a 4.6 GB IBM hard drive in it. I partitioned it as follows... /dev/hda1 primary Fat32 (1000M) /dev/hda5 logical Fat32 (900M) /dev/hda6 logical Fat32 (800M) /dev/hda7 logical Linux (1000M) /dev/hda4 primary Linux ext2 (840M) /dev/hda3 primary Linux swap (100M) Now I find that the hard drive is constantly accessed and reset. I mean that it seems the disk is being accessed for a second, then goes back to inactivity with an almost crackling noise. If the disk was reading data this would seem normal, but it happens out of the blue, while there is no process running that requires disk access. This happens both under Linux as well as Win98, but it is more pronounced under Linux. I was wondering if it could be because the partitioning I did was too minute. My idea was to keep all the Fat32 partitions on one side of the disk, all the Linux partitions on the other. I was thinking myself to re-partition as follows, just to experiment... /dev/hda1 primary Fat32 (1000M) /dev/hda2 primary Fat32 (1700M) /dev/hda3 primary Linux ext2 (1840M) /dev/hda4 primary Linux swap (100M) I have a similar partitioning scheme on my desktop and it works fine. Still I want to check with you guys first to see if I am on the right train of thoughts. -- Hans -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Is this smart HD partitioning?
The crackling sound sounds like the scan that updates your find dB. When you do a find on your computer it checks this dB for locations of things(to be simple). Anyway I think you Linux parts are too big, hence it seems as if it locking up. I had this problem. I would split /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda4 into different partitions such as: That was a good hint, but that doesn't explain why it happens both under Linux and Win98. Some other strange things: when I give the CPU some work to do (like constantly playing MP3 files) it stops. I also noted that the internal clock runs slow (about a second an hour), so I think I'll bring it back for a replacement: the machine is four days old. -- Hans
Re: HD partitioning.
Star Linux, start fdisk and enter t (for setting the type of a partition), Answer all questions, eventually press L to show the list of partition types (where 82 is Linux native and 6 is Dos =32Mb) , press x to write the changes to disk. Should do ... mfg --- Andreas Sliwka --- http://emil.nef.wh.uni-dortmund.de/~goff talk to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ICQ:13961062
HD partitioning.
Ok, I'm completely lostI know how to make a Linux drive out of Windows drive, basicly speaking...but I need to make a drive for Win from what I currently have as a drive where partitions are set to Dos 16 type, but the filesystem is ext2. I can not do anything about it in windows.it plain can not see the drive. Please give an advice on how to make my drive visible to windows? TIA, Andrew
