I'm going to do another install from scratch. The HD on the laptop is 250gigs so I'm most likely going to make 2 partions one at 100gig and the other the 150 or so that is left for the /home directory. It will be good practice for me and since I don't really have anything on it yet.
On Sep 23, 2009, at 11:54 AM, David Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
