I am guessing that the data belows tells me that I need to
partition this HDD to make some or all of it Swap or
Extended or something ... yes?
What is the recommendation, please?
The initial purpose is to serve as a temporary backup
drive so I may dump my 9.0 notebook to it, wipe the notebook
HDD for a clean 9.1 load, then to copy back on to my
notebook things like the address book, the contents of
my Mozilla past E-mails and Web bookmarks as well as
some Kate and OO text files ... so I guess that the
mode of transferring the data to the HDD will dictate
the ease of getting at it later.
Sure appreciate any guidance! I cannot afford to lose
the notebook data ... nor that on my 9.0 desktop once I
get to it.
Am looking forward to 9.1!
dmc
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YaST Expert Partitioner shows the following
Device /dev/sdb
Size 74.5GB
Type OJB-00ETA0
Mount
Start 0
End 9728
Used by
Label
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/var/log/messages reads:
May 7 08:34:09 linux syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
May 7 08:34:10 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.rc[1101]: loaded HCD: ehci-hcd
May 7 08:34:11 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.rc[1101]: loaded HCD: usb-uhci
May 7 08:34:11 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.rc[1101]: loaded HCD: ehci-hcd
May 7 08:34:14 linux kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
May 7 08:34:14 linux kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.21-199-default
May 7 08:34:14 linux kernel: Loaded 21338 symbols from
/boot/System.map-2.4.21
May 7 08:34:14 linux kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.4.21.
May 7 08:34:14 linux kernel: Loaded 502 symbols from 18 modules.
May 7 08:34:14 linux kernel: bootsplash: silent jpeg found.
May 7 08:34:14 linux kernel: Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Driver bcm5700
with Bro
May 7 08:34:14 linux kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:02.0
May 7 08:34:14 linux kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.1
May 7 08:34:14 linux kernel: eth0: Broadcom BCM5705 1000Base-T found at
mem d0
May 7 08:34:14 linux kernel: eth0: Broadcom BCM5705 Integrated Copper
transcei
May 7 08:34:14 linux kernel: eth0: Scatter-gather ON, 64-bit DMA ON, Tx
Checks
May 7 08:34:14 linux kernel: bcm5700: eth0 NIC Link is UP, 100 Mbps
full duple
May 7 08:34:14 linux kernel: ohci1394: $Rev: 1045 $ Ben Collins