On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 20:38, Mr. Geek wrote: > Elwyn York wrote: > > On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 17:53, Greg Meyer wrote: > >>On Sunday 03 April 2005 07:52 am, Elwyn York wrote: > Well, other than the fact that you just answered your own question > Elwyn, you need to transfer your mail to another machine and sort out > some place to dump 8 Gb's of MP3 files.
80 not 8, but it's still quite a bit. I've found a place for them now. Alas it is on an NTFS drive, but it'll do for now :( > > Which begs the question,...should we consider setting up our own private > P2P system? But back to your question,..... I had considered that, and theoretically it is possible to just shove another hard drive in my Smeserver webserver but (and I have already spoken at great lengths with another forum over getting an 80gb to work in a machine that barfs at anything over 25gb!) I don't want to burden the machine with that much stuff. > > How is your hard drive partitioned now? Is the 80 Gb's of MP3's on a > separate partition? If you decide to install 10.2, your /home folder > should be fine as long as you don't attempt to change your partition > sizes or to re-format your drive. The 80gb partition was in the /home/elwyn/shared/mp3s so yes, it is on my home partition. However, I did not know whether 10.+ takes anymore file size space and I would have thought it would have been easier to keep to a clean install... However, saying that, I've still got this dual booting with WinXP on it as well (for gaming purposes :o :o :)) > > The 10.2 installer should detect your existing partitions, and it will > show you that the /home partition will not be formatted, unless you > manually select it. Ahh, this is what I like to hear. Another linux friend this evening also pointed out some of these salient points and alayed some fears of dataloss. > Any other partitions which have atypical names (partitions names that > Linux doesn't already have in it's own list), will also be left alone > unless you tell the installer and/or diskdrake otherwise. Good ;) > > Hope that helps. > > Now, about that VP-P2P-Network,...... Hmm. The problem with all of these is that they can put an innordinate amount of pressure on the adsl link. I've got a 512k down and 256k up, and whilst the upload is unlimited I have yet to find a way to force the smeserver to only use, say, 50 percent of the available bandwidth. Whilst having loads of members having their own small server with their own collection there is always going to be someone who wants to grab loads now :( There are other places to go for the fix Oh, and my ADSL link is an older package now and discontinued, but basically doesn't allow P2P on the system. I can however run my own intranet and webserver, fileserver etc etc as long as it doesnt break their end :) > > > Mr. Geek > Registered Linux User #190712 Elwyn York I'll get there...
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