Re: 3rd new wheezy install
On 20150208_0029-0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday, February 08, 2015 12:12:32 AM Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 01:14:56PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > I have been down that graden path so many times I think I could do it
> > > in my sleep. I had that drive setup with a hair over a gig for the
> > > /boot, and all that, it did write a new table giving boot only 300
> > > megs, and all the other partitions were either too small or way too
> > > big.
> >
> > So you're saying that you think the sizes are wrong? I think I'd tend to
> > agree with you here, but I just use entire disk for my installs. I do
> > remember though that the default offering if you didn't use the entire
> > disk was not good, I ran out of room in one partition although I think
> > you can change the sizes afterwards. Are you saying that if you do,
> > then the alignment is incorrect shown by other tools?
>
> The alignment seems to be bad on every partition if you do it by hand, but
> if you just let it use the whole disk, the first parttition is good, but the
> swap seems out of kilter and probably slow if and when I ever get into swap.
You could use a file in your first partition for swap instead of a separate
partion (that is badly configured) for swap. Having swap on its own partition
seems to have lost some of its technical advantage due to changes in how
modern drives are designed, or so I have heard somewhere. (Hoping to
generate some informed responses...)
>
> That I can likely fix live by doing a swapoff before I send gparted to adjust
> its start a mebibyte at a time.
>
> Thanks Chris.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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