hdh is a free 10GB (NTFS) looking for something to do
Hello all, I have now copied all of my data off of the NTFS drive I attached post SuSE 9.0 installation. Now I have a drive that I can do whatever I want with. I already have two drives in the machine. One drive is (hda1 '/home') and the other is split (hdb1 'swap' and hdb2 '/'). I was thinking of formatting this 'newly available' drive and trying to use it to make the machine run a little faster or be more productive, or just have the drive serve as a common point for accessing media files or dropping junk into it as to not clutter up my /home directory. I am not sure exactly what I should do or how I go about doing it so if anyone has any suggestions or ideas, I am all ears. Thanks to everyone that gave advice on mounting the drive when I needed it. Though, I was never able to mount it as a user, I did learn a little more about the system, and I was able to recover all the files from it. -=Thinker
Le Wednesday 03 December 2003, 01:15:22 ou environ Thinker <thinker@thoughtprogress.com> a écrit:
Hello all, I have now copied all of my data off of the NTFS drive I attached post SuSE 9.0 installation. Now I have a drive that I can do whatever I want with.
I already have two drives in the machine. One drive is (hda1 '/home') and the other is split (hdb1 'swap' and hdb2 '/').
I was thinking of formatting this 'newly available' drive and trying to use it to make the machine run a little faster or be more productive, or just have the drive serve as a common point for accessing media files or dropping junk into it as to not clutter up my /home directory. I am not sure exactly what I should do or how I go about doing it so if anyone has any suggestions or ideas, I am all ears.
Thanks to everyone that gave advice on mounting the drive when I needed it. Though, I was never able to mount it as a user, I did learn a little more about the system, and I was able to recover all the files from it.
-=Thinker
If you want to use the drive with Gnu-Linux I only see one solution: reformat with another File-System (ext3, ReiserFs or ...) with Yast or if you want to use it with Windoze too format it with Fat32 file-system. -- Alain Barthélemy cassandre@bartydeux.be http://www.bartydeux.be Linux User #315631
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 04:11, Alain Barthélemy wrote:
Le Wednesday 03 December 2003, 01:15:22 ou environ Thinker <thinker@thoughtprogress.com> a écrit:
Hello all, I have now copied all of my data off of the NTFS drive I attached post SuSE 9.0 installation. Now I have a drive that I can do whatever I want with.
I already have two drives in the machine. One drive is (hda1 '/home') and the other is split (hdb1 'swap' and hdb2 '/').
I was thinking of formatting this 'newly available' drive and trying to use it to make the machine run a little faster or be more productive, or just have the drive serve as a common point for accessing media files or dropping junk into it as to not clutter up my /home directory. I am not sure exactly what I should do or how I go about doing it so if anyone has any suggestions or ideas, I am all ears.
Thanks to everyone that gave advice on mounting the drive when I needed it. Though, I was never able to mount it as a user, I did learn a little more about the system, and I was able to recover all the files from it.
-=Thinker
If you want to use the drive with Gnu-Linux I only see one solution: reformat with another File-System (ext3, ReiserFs or ...) with Yast or if you want to use it with Windoze too format it with Fat32 file-system.
Yes, I want to use it for linux. My questions are, what is the best way to set it up for this box? What should I edit and how? Is there a way I can add this drive to the current configuration and make the machine more efficient? -thinker
On Wednesday 03 December 2003 13:04 pm, Thinker wrote: <SNIP>
Yes, I want to use it for linux. My questions are, what is the best way to set it up for this box? What should I edit and how? Is there a way I can add this drive to the current configuration and make the machine more efficient?
I'm not sure you could use it to make the machine more efficient, except maybe by using some of it for a second swap partition - although I doubt that will increase performance. You could easily use it a a data drive, like you say to unclutter your /home directory. Alternatively you could use it for one or more of /opt, /usr, /var or /tmp. /var and /tmp don't need to be very large (1GB for /var and maybe 2GB for / tmp should be more than enough.) Putting these often-accessed directories on a separate drive splits the drive access across separate interfaces, hence potentially increasing performance (but unlikely by enough to notice in normal usage.) To move these directories to the new drive: partition and format the drive using YaST's partitioner Assuming you made 3 partitions: hdh1 1GB hdh2 2GB hdh3 the rest of the drive make some temporary directories under /mnt, say /mnt/hdh1 etc... and one for the / of the installed system (maybe /mnt/instroot) MAKE A BACKUP OF /etc/fstab: cp -a /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak.thinker open /etc/fstab and add the lines for the new partitions: /dev/hdh1 /var ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdh2 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdh3 /usr ext3 defaults 1 1 (change ext3 to your chosen filesystem.) reboot using the rescue system on the first CD/DVD mount the installation's / on /mnt/instroot: mount -t auto /dev/hdb2 /mnt/instroot and the new partitions on their directories: mount -t auto /dev/hdh1 /mnt/hdh1 etc... now copy the relevant directories from /mnt/instroot to the appropriate destination. In the example: cp -a /mnt/instroot/var /mnt/hdh1 cp -a /mnt/instroot/tmp /mnt/hdh2 cp -a /mnt/instroot/usr /mnt/hdh3 (it's not strictly necessary to copy the contents of /tmp) reboot as normal. You should now have the new copies of the directories mounted over (and hiding) the old copies. If all works well (for a day or so) you can boot with the rescue system again to delete the old contents of the directories which are still there on the / partition. Dylan
-thinker
-- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg
On Wednesday 03 December 2003 05:04, Thinker wrote:
Is there a way I can add this drive to the current configuration and make the machine more efficient?
Take a moment to read the Admin Guide > Chapter 1>Partitioning for Experts>Optimizations. Read the whole section. It will give you a better understanding of how -you- may want to use that new drive to speed up your system. It opened my eyes. Bernd -- "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." Antoine de St. Exupery
On Wed December 3 2003 04:11 am, Alain Barthélemy wrote:
If you want to use the drive with Gnu-Linux I only see one solution: reformat with another File-System (ext3, ReiserFs or ...) with Yast or if you want to use it with Windoze too format it with Fat32 file-system.
Gnu-linux?? What's that? (you've been listening to RMS too much) -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 12/03/03 08:22 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Every creature has within itself the wild, uncontrollable urge to punt."
Le mercredi 03 décembre 2003, 08:22:37 ou environ Bruce Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com a écrit: On Wed December 3 2003 04:11 am, Alain Barthélemy wrote:
If you want to use the drive with Gnu-Linux I only see one solution: reformat with another File-System (ext3, ReiserFs or ...) with Yast or if you want to use it with Windoze too format it with Fat32 file-system.
Gnu-linux?? What's that?
(you've been listening to RMS too much)
No I am just using applications he made that were transposed on a certain O.S. called Linux. It is a special character though and I was amazed how well he could speak French. Great developer but did have the qualities to fight a monopoly like M$$ For more informations read Linus Torvalds'Book. Fight a monopoly requests a great talent that was lacking many people (I would not do better). -- Alain Barthélemy cassandre@bartydeux.be http://www.bartydeux.be Linux User #315631
The Wednesday 2003-12-03 at 01:15 -0500, Thinker wrote:
I already have two drives in the machine. One drive is (hda1 '/home') and the other is split (hdb1 'swap' and hdb2 '/').
I was thinking of formatting this 'newly available' drive and trying to use it to make the machine run a little faster or be more productive, or
You could put swap there, or /opt, for example. There is a chapter about this on the SuSE books. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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