On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:42:57 +0800, Hans van den Boogert
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Now I find that the hard drive is constantly accessed and reset. I mean
that it seems the disk is being accessed for a second, then goes back to
inactivity with an almost crackling noise.
This most likely is the
My Acer Travelmate 512T laptop (Celeron 366, 96 MB RAM), has a 4.6 GB IBM
hard drive in it. I partitioned it as follows...
/dev/hda1 primary Fat32 (1000M)
/dev/hda5 logical Fat32 (900M)
/dev/hda6 logical Fat32 (800M)
/dev/hda7 logical Linux (1000M)
/dev/hda4 primary Linux ext2 (840M)
/dev/hda3
/dev/hda1 primary Fat32 (1000M)
/dev/hda5 logical Fat32 (900M)
/dev/hda6 logical Fat32 (800M)
/dev/hda7 logical Linux (1000M)
/dev/hda4 primary Linux ext2 (840M)
/dev/hda3 primary Linux swap (100M)
Seems ok, but you dont need 100M swap with 96M of Ram that you have
already, unless you
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Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 8:43 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Is this smart HD partitioning?
My Acer Travelmate 512T laptop (Celeron 366, 96 MB RAM), has a 4.6 GB IBM
hard drive in it. I partitioned it as follows...
/dev/hda1 primary Fat32 (1000M
The crackling sound sounds like the scan that updates your find dB. When you
do a find on your computer it checks this dB for locations of things(to be
simple). Anyway I think you Linux parts are too big, hence it seems as if it
locking up. I had this problem. I would split /dev/hda7 and
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