Like DK said, it's nice to have a separate /home partition if in the future you plan to install a different distro.
The only thing I would recommend is immediately before shutdown for the last time of the distro your currently using, copy all of your hidden (.*) files and folders to a separate folder. I usually just call it "dot_files" . This will contain most of your configuration files and folders , i.e. ".mozilla " and other important settings. There's nothing more frustrating than installing a different distro with custom settings, i.e. "Ubuntu Studio" and have it look exactly like the distro you just replaced because these dot files will sometimes not get over written with the new setings. You can than move these piece meal back to the users directory to restore those important config files. Just thought this distro hopping tip would help ;-) --Manny On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
