I'm not sure if I said it wouldn't boot. I believe the OS will always boot, but if you fill the same volume as /, or worse /tmp, then the system cannot write files it needs to do a proper startup. I guess having booted, but not being able to start certain processes could be 'not booting' by some definitions too :) Point is, I think the Linux kernel will always boot, but other applications may not start.
Yeah, I did recommend a good partitioning scheme. I was probably referring to a system that would be a busy multi-user system, or even something like a web server or e-mail server. If you have a filesystem, such as the /var filesystem on it's own partition, then you don't have to worry about a stray process filling the entire disk with log files, it will just fill the /var filesystem, but not affect other parts of the system. For a single user system, and a laptop at that, I have been more relaxed with the total partitioning strategy I used to use. Still, one other reason to have /home on it's own partition, is that it shouldn't contain any system files - so if you want to upgrade the system from one version of Linux to another, or even change distributions, etc... you can preserve the /home partition and just have the new system install all the binaries into the other (non /home) partition, and then you map the old /home partition to the new system and all your users files are there. (At least it sounds good on paper) On 9/23/2009, "Jason Cotton" <[email protected]> wrote: >it was the PMI setting it was not maxed out. I have good audio now. The >power settings are working for hybernate and standby which are nice. > I'm notorious of just closing the lid of my laptop and throwing it into my >bag. So far so good I've installed a few applications to allow me view and >listen to my media. >Now there is something I remembered from years ago that DK had told me that >if the HD/partition became full then the OS would not boot. Is this the >reasoning to manually allocate the partitions? So the OS booting and the >/home directory are separated? Or am I remembering this wrong? Thanks for >all of your suggestions/help. I'm enjoying messing around with this laptop. > I have to say I'm enjoying it now more than when it had Vista on it. > >On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]>wrote: > >> As the Chris L. and P. have noted, if your speakers are not getting full >> volume, it is not a problem with the OS. there should be a setting that you >> can find somewhere which can solve your problem. Also, if you find that the >> "out of the box" video player doesn't play all your DVD's, then you might >> want to install VLC media player also. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> >> _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
