Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)
Another responder mentioned block sizes. Yes, that mb the problem. I'm new to USB sticks haven't formatted them in any way: they seem to have an existing file system on them, but mb it's Fat32, which seems likely to be inefficient. So are there any standard recommendations for formatting them ? Do I simply do 'mke2fs' (the HDDs are formatted with ReiserFS) ? How about block size ? Thanks for the replies so far. Sticks are usually formatted w/FAT16 as M$ is giving people a hard time about FAT32 (which is even more inefficent.)
Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)
071019 Peter Alfredsen wrote: On Friday 19 October 2007, Philip Webb wrote: (1) The mobo (ASUS P5K-VM) manual has as default 'Configure SATA as IDE', which I have left as is. However, while the System Rescue CD finds the HDD as '/dev/sda', neither the Gentoo Live CD nor Knoppix sees it: should I change the mobo setting (the HDD is SATA) ? If it has a setting Configure SATA as AHCI, try that. AHCI is a generic-ish interface that should improve compatibility. Yes, that did the trick ! Thanks. Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ? It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files. It won't affect today's installation job, but wb useful for the future, if there's some way of avoiding it. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)
Philip Webb ha scritto: 071019 Peter Alfredsen wrote: On Friday 19 October 2007, Philip Webb wrote: (1) The mobo (ASUS P5K-VM) manual has as default 'Configure SATA as IDE', which I have left as is. However, while the System Rescue CD finds the HDD as '/dev/sda', neither the Gentoo Live CD nor Knoppix sees it: should I change the mobo setting (the HDD is SATA) ? If it has a setting Configure SATA as AHCI, try that. AHCI is a generic-ish interface that should improve compatibility. Yes, that did the trick ! Thanks. Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ? It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files. It won't affect today's installation job, but wb useful for the future, if there's some way of avoiding it. I've seen similar effects on my fat32 USB sticks. What filesystem do you use on them? m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:51:25 -0400 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snip-- Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ? It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files. It won't affect today's installation job, but wb useful for the future, if there's some way of avoiding it. Are the source media and the usb stick formatted with the same file system? Are the block sizes of the file systems the same? -- Best regards, Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)
071020 b.n. wrote: Philip Webb ha scritto: Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ? It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files. It won't affect today's installation job, but wb useful for the future, if there's some way of avoiding it. I've seen similar effects on my fat32 USB sticks. What filesystem do you use on them? Another responder mentioned block sizes. Yes, that mb the problem. I'm new to USB sticks haven't formatted them in any way: they seem to have an existing file system on them, but mb it's Fat32, which seems likely to be inefficient. So are there any standard recommendations for formatting them ? Do I simply do 'mke2fs' (the HDDs are formatted with ReiserFS) ? How about block size ? Thanks for the replies so far. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)
Philip Webb schrieb: 071020 b.n. wrote: Philip Webb ha scritto: Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ? It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files. It won't affect today's installation job, but wb useful for the future, if there's some way of avoiding it. I've seen similar effects on my fat32 USB sticks. What filesystem do you use on them? Another responder mentioned block sizes. Yes, that mb the problem. I'm new to USB sticks haven't formatted them in any way: they seem to have an existing file system on them, but mb it's Fat32, which seems likely to be inefficient. So are there any standard recommendations for formatting them ? Do I simply do 'mke2fs' (the HDDs are formatted with ReiserFS) ? How about block size ? Thanks for the replies so far. Ext2 is a good choice as long as you don't want to exchange data with Windows (except you can install the ext2 driver on the Windows machines). Don't use journalized file systems like Ext3 and Reiserfs since their journal causes additional write operations and flash media only last a limited number of them. (of course, you could disable reiserfs's journal but that's just additional trouble). Blocksize for Ext2? As long as you don't transfer many very small files (=3k), stick with the default. If you want to continue using FAT, you should create zip or tar archives. That way, you can preserve file permissions and don't wast space on your stick. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
