Re: Is this smart HD partitioning?

1999-08-26 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:42:57 +0800, Hans van den Boogert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Is this smart HD partitioning?

1999-08-25 Thread Hans van den Boogert
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

Re: Is this smart HD partitioning?

1999-08-25 Thread Andrei Ivanov
/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

RE: Is this smart HD partitioning?

1999-08-25 Thread Person, Roderick
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

RE: Is this smart HD partitioning?

1999-08-25 Thread Hans van den Boogert
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