Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning - ideas
Hi,
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 17:30:41 -0700 (PDT), Alvin Oga
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> On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
...
> > .._silent!_ fans.
>
> fans are usually quiet... it's the air that's noisy, air that wanna
> pass thru them tiny, rough edged holes :-)
..oh yeah? Try run a fan in a vacuum chamber. ;-)
> ( didnt like "work/websites" :-)
..stuff it in ~funny/ then. ;-)
> > /dev/hdb5 73G 54G 15G 78% /mnt
>
> humm ... bad idea to use /mnt as a specific parttition's mount point
..stop gap measure, back-up of /dev/hda. ;-)
> - gets confusing for /mnt/floppy or /mnt/cdrom or /mnt/firewire
>
> > > 512MB <swap> /dev/hda7 - add memory if you need more mem
> >
> > ..depends on what you do, I use 2 times the maximum supportable
> > by the main system board, to minimize down time on upgrades.
>
> too much swap being used ... implies a very very slow system ...
> - if 256MB or 512MB of swapp is used ... add more memory
> ( it'd run 10x faster ... with memory instead of swap space )
..on upgrading memory for an isp bandwidth trottle, would my "very
very slow system"-approach, really really be less cost effective
than your disk re-format? ;-)
> > > move /var/www to /home/www so that user data is separate from
> > > system/var files
> >
> > ...and symlink'em... ;-)
>
> a test :-) of understanding what one just did :-)
..well, the initial thread poster helpfully adviced he is a newbie,
which helpful next-posters might take advantage of on passing on
those wee helpful hints; first teach, then test, newbie. ;-)
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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