Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On Fri, 21 Oct 2022 16:01:17 + Andy Smith wrote: ... > I know multiple people who describe the main enclosure that contains > all the innards of the computer as "the CPU" and do not know whether It's even standard terminology in the standing desk community, e.g.:

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On 28/10/2022 05:19, William Torrez Corea wrote: Only use my laptop in my desktop and when i going to sleep in a night table for watch a movie. Compare G-Sense_Error_Rate attribute value in smartctl output in the beginning and at the end. In some buildings a train line nearby may cause

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

>> I have been careful not to buy SMR drives, but AIUI they are cost >> effective for large sequential write workloads -- e.g. music/ photo/ >> video/ ISO files, backup/ archive tarballs, images/ clones, etc.. AFAIK SMR drives are just as good as PMR drives when it comes to reading, so it should

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On 10/27/22 15:19, William Torrez Corea wrote: On 10/25/22, David Christensen wrote: I wonder if the OP is using the laptop in a moving vehicle, while riding public transportation, or is handling it roughly (?). Only use my laptop in my desktop and when i going to sleep in a night table

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On 10/25/22, David Christensen wrote: > On 10/25/22 19:22, Max Nikulin wrote: >> On 26/10/2022 04:34, William Torrez Corea wrote: >>> Model Family: Toshiba L200 (SMR) >> >> I would not consider a HDD with shingled magnetic recording as a storage >> to install OS. > > > +1 > > I prefer SSD's

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On 10/25/22 19:22, Max Nikulin wrote: On 26/10/2022 04:34, William Torrez Corea wrote: Model Family: Toshiba L200 (SMR) I would not consider a HDD with shingled magnetic recording as a storage to install OS. +1 I prefer SSD's for OS drives. I have been careful not to buy SMR

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On 26/10/2022 04:34, William Torrez Corea wrote: Model Family: Toshiba L200 (SMR) I would not consider a HDD with shingled magnetic recording as a storage to install OS. This series has a CMR product, but it has another problem: 3 Spin_Up_TimePOS--K 100 100 001-

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On 10/25/22 18:00, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 05:56:33PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: We need to see the messages starting at time 0.00 -- e.g. when the system is booted. Please reboot and try again. Or check the /var/log/kern* files. One of them may have the full

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On 10/25/22 14:34, William Torrez Corea wrote: On 10/19/22, David Christensen wrote: Have you tested your system disk? To start a long test: 2022-10-19 18:34:55 root@laalaa ~ # smartctl -t long /dev/sda Wait for test to complete, then get the report: 2022-10-19 18:34:55 root@laalaa ~ #

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 05:56:33PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > We need to see the messages starting at time 0.00 -- e.g. when the > system is booted. Please reboot and try again. Or check the /var/log/kern* files. One of them may have the full set of kernel messages from the current

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On 10/25/22 14:19, William Torrez Corea wrote: On 10/19/22, David Christensen wrote: On 10/19/22 18:26, William Torrez Corea wrote: The Booting is very dawdled, when I start firefox the page stays loading too much time and when I try to open LibreOffice or Gimp it loads the program very

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On 10/19/22, David Christensen wrote: > Have you tested your system disk? To start a long test: > > 2022-10-19 18:34:55 root@laalaa ~ > # smartctl -t long /dev/sda > > Wait for test to complete, then get the report: > > 2022-10-19 18:34:55 root@laalaa ~ > # smartctl -x /dev/sda > > > Are you

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On 10/19/22, David Christensen wrote: > On 10/19/22 18:26, William Torrez Corea wrote: > >> The Booting is very dawdled, when I start firefox the page stays loading >> too much time and when I try to open LibreOffice or Gimp it loads the >> program very slow. In the browser I have different tabs

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

Andy Smith wrote: > Someone famous once said, "the only intuitive interface is the > nipple". For humans, at least, this turns out to be incorrect as well. Our babies are born with a rooting instinct: if you tickle their lower lip with something soft, they will open their mouth and try to latch

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

Hello, On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 09:39:59PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 07:26:06PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > *What made you decide the slowness is due to a missing partition?* > > > > I don't know, i assume this. > > I'm utterly at a loss to understand how

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On 2022-10-20, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> As you have only 8GB RAM (which, I believe, is not enough RAM, nowadays, > > FWIW, Apple seems to think it's still perfectly sufficient since their > laptops, iMac, and Mac mini all come with 8GB by default (and many > can't go further up than 16GB). > > >

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On Thu 20 Oct 2022 at 23:20:11 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/10/22 22:58, David Wright wrote: > > > Perhaps Bret will be back to explain. > > > > "Le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle" > > No, I am not french. > > Due to the hostile response to what I have posted in this thread, I > have

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On 20/10/22 22:58, David Wright wrote: Perhaps Bret will be back to explain. "Le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle" No, I am not french. Due to the hostile response to what I have posted in this thread, I have abandoned the discussion. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800)

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On Thu 20 Oct 2022 at 01:18:10 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2022-10-19 23:51 (UTC-0500): > > > I wouldn't be able to keep track of what was where with a > > scheme like that. > > I bet you could, if you utilized a tool that facilitates it. > > DFSee Linux 16.9 :

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

William Torrez Corea writes: > The Booting is very dawdled, when I start firefox the page stays loading too > much time and when > I try to open LibreOffice or Gimp it loads the program very slow. In the > browser I have > different tabs open. Since it has been established by you that you

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

David Wright composed on 2022-10-19 23:51 (UTC-0500): > I wouldn't be able to keep track of what was where with a > scheme like that. I bet you could, if you utilized a tool that facilitates it. DFSee Linux 16.9 : Executing: fdisk -r- -w- Command timestamp : Monday 2022-09-12 16:13:22

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On Thu 20 Oct 2022 at 07:58:54 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/10/22 06:57, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 4:32 PM Bret Busby wrote: > > On 20/10/22 06:19, Bret Busby wrote: > > > How much RAM does the computer have? > > > > > > I would be inclined to use gparted to

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On 10/19/22 18:26, William Torrez Corea wrote: The Booting is very dawdled, when I start firefox the page stays loading too much time and when I try to open LibreOffice or Gimp it loads the program very slow. In the browser I have different tabs open. Please reboot, login, open a terminal,

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> As you have only 8GB RAM (which, I believe, is not enough RAM, nowadays, FWIW, Apple seems to think it's still perfectly sufficient since their laptops, iMac, and Mac mini all come with 8GB by default (and many can't go further up than 16GB). Stefan "who finds his T60 and its 3GB of

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On 10/19/22 14:22, William Torrez Corea wrote: My hard disk have the following partition: /dev /run / /dev/shm /run/user/1000 I want to improve my partition; my OS is very slow. *Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)* *Xfce 44.16* *Intel Core i7-4500 CPU @ 1.80Ghz x 4* *7.7 GiB* On 10/19/22

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 07:26:06PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > The Booting is very dawdled, when I start firefox the page stays loading > too much time and when I try to open LibreOffice or Gimp it loads the > program very slow. In the browser I have different tabs open. > > > *What

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 20:55:24 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: > So far, there has been no information yet provided that > provides any basis for suggesting any partitioning change. OP simply > asked how he might make a change, saying nothing about why he believe > partitioning might have anything to do

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 5:02 PM Felix Miata wrote: > William Torrez Corea composed on 2022-10-19 16:33 (UTC-0600): > Freespace is quite plentiful, so not a reason for slowness. > > What are the manifestations of slowness that you are observing? What apps > do you > keep open and/or use a lot?

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

Bret Busby composed on 2022-10-20 08:15 (UTC+0800): > An important thing, is, with only 8GB RAM, I believe that you ned 32GB > of swap partition. I believe that with the little information provided in thread by the OP so far that there is as yet no basis for making a recommendation for any

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On 20/10/22 07:58, Bret Busby wrote: On 20/10/22 06:57, William Torrez Corea wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 4:32 PM Bret Busby > wrote:     On 20/10/22 06:19, Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/10/22 05:51, William Torrez Corea wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Oct

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On 20/10/22 06:57, William Torrez Corea wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 4:32 PM Bret Busby > wrote: On 20/10/22 06:19, Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/10/22 05:51, William Torrez Corea wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 3:34 PM Jude DaShiell

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

William Torrez Corea composed on 2022-10-19 16:33 (UTC-0600): > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 908G 90G 772G 11% / > NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% > MOUNTPOINT > sda > ├─sda1 > │ext4 1.0

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 4:32 PM Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/10/22 06:19, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 20/10/22 05:51, William Torrez Corea wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 3:34 PM Jude DaShiell >> > wrote: > >> > >> This is likely inaccurate information. >

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On 20/10/22 05:51, William Torrez Corea wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 3:34 PM Jude DaShiell > wrote: This is likely inaccurate information. What output returns when you run: lsblk /dev/sda? First requirement for a new partition is available space.

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 4:13 PM Felix Miata wrote: > William Torrez Corea composed on 2022-10-19 15:51 (UTC-0600): > > > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > >> This is likely inaccurate information. > >> What output returns when you run: > >> lsblk /dev/sda? > >> First requirement for a new partition is

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

On 20/10/22 06:19, Bret Busby wrote: On 20/10/22 05:51, William Torrez Corea wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 3:34 PM Jude DaShiell > wrote:     This is likely inaccurate information.     What output returns when you run:     lsblk /dev/sda?     First requirement

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

William Torrez Corea composed on 2022-10-19 15:51 (UTC-0600): > Jude DaShiell wrote: >> This is likely inaccurate information. >> What output returns when you run: >> lsblk /dev/sda? >> First requirement for a new partition is available space. > I have the following output: > NAME MAJ:MIN RM

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On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 3:34 PM Jude DaShiell wrote: > This is likely inaccurate information. > What output returns when you run: > lsblk /dev/sda? > First requirement for a new partition is available space. > > I have the following output: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda

How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

My hard disk have the following partition: /dev > /run > / > /dev/shm > /run/user/1000 > I want to improve my partition; my OS is very slow. *Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)* *Xfce 44.16* *Intel Core i7-4500 CPU @ 1.80Ghz x 4* *7.7 GiB* -- With kindest regards, William. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian