Hi We have the 3 standard partitions of / /boot and swap which 7.2 installed by default with the 2.4.4 4GB SuSE kernel. There is also a very small windows partition holding word and excel. Is it normal that we can't use the server as a normal machine because it is so slow with KDE up? /var/adm and /var/log are huge and /tmp has loads of .wav files from cd burning. I'm not sure about the wisdomof deleting any of these aprt from /tmp. Thanks, Steve. On Thursday 15 November 2001 23:56, you wrote:
Depending on how much hd space you have. You can tar.bz2 groups of files so that you eventually backup then restore your files. You also might want to look at locations that might contain files you don't need. Especially if you have your whole distro on one partition. It's possible that you have temp files, logs, and core dumps. How is your disk partitioned? Also, what kernel are you using?
John
----- Original Message ----- From: "scc"
To: "SuSE" Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 2:47 AM Subject: [SLE] slow 7.2 Samba Hi everyone.
We run a school of 150 students roughly divided into 10 groups of 15 who share 10 w98 clients from a 7.2 PII/300 server. We have a rw
/home/students
directory on the server where all the stuff, typically word 97 files, are stored centrally for checking under subdirectories for each class.
The system is getting slower, presumably as the disk fills up with files.
We
used to be able to run Star Office on the server for example during class time under KDE, but now it has to sit there in console mode. We don't want
to
backup since we want to use the material we produced earlier on in the
course.
We can't afford to employ a systems administrator and so take it in turns
to
be 'root'. Can anyone who has read the Samba manual help us on this one?
It's
just that I seem to be having more than my fair share of being root at the moment ;)
Thanks, Steve.
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