Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
dwain wrote:
I am planning on adding a third hard drive to my mix. I will be buying 2 new larger ones, one for root and one for home and i would like to use the third one as a swap drive.
Swap is typically 2x your RAM. I haven't seen a HD available that small for long time. Just provide a swap partition, typically 1-2 GB, but more if needed, on your root drive.
Would it be best not to use the third one as a swap drive and leave the swap drive on the root drive?
Yes. Not sure what size drives you are talking about (why you are buying 2 but adding only a 3rd?), but the smallest you can buy at my local supplier now is 80 GB, way too much for swap.
I am replacing a 13GB drive and a 4GB drive with 2 40GB 7200rpm drives. I had intended to use a 2GB drive that I have for the swap drive. The reason I'm using 40GB drives is that that's all the drive my BIOS on this old machine will handle. Besides, I don't need a larger drive than 40GB.
I also want to copy my home drive to the new larger drive. Are there any issues I need to be aware of that could cause some problems with regard to data access and such?
No, you will find this a much more friendly activity in linux than you were used to in Windows.
Glad to know this, I guess that a select all and move/copy to the new drive is all that is needed? -- Dwain Alford P.O. Box 145 Winfield, Alabama 35594 telephone: 205.487.2570 cellphone: 205.495.5619 "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning The Spiritual In Art" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org