Mostly you don't have to worry about the disk filling up if by some process going wild in desktops, but it is a common practice to make separate partitions for servers to protect from this problem. This problem may be more a thing of the past, since hard drives are so big now, and usually if a process goes wild the system monitor program will detect it before it fills up, as long a someone is monitoring the system monitor.
Usually it is the temp files and the log files that will tend to fill up when a process goes wild or if a hacker tries to load a process into the system, the temp file will often be what gets filled. If you make a boot partition, then you can protect your system, because if something fills up the root partition most likely the boot partition will not be effected. That is because, in general, a wild process will only write data to the partition that it is on. (unless some hacker tries to be really creative and make a process that will write to all partitions) If you make a small partition for boot, then your system should be able to start up no matter what happens in the temp and log files, or anything else in the root partition. Also, if you make a /home partition, you will be protecting your data files. If you have a /home partition, then you can wipe your root and/or boot partition clean and reinstall just about any linux distro you want if you so desire, and your data will be undisturbed. Of course if you do that, you should backup just to be safe anyways. On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:34 AM, 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 > >
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