Rather than answering all the naysayers individually, I'll explain
again, publicly, why I suggested the numbers I did.
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> Okay, I installed debian now, a perfect install with LVM.
> Here is the output of df -H
>
> Filesystem Size
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
>
> Okay I figured out how to make more partitions on LVM, just want to
> make sure if the bootable flag on the LVM should be ON or OFF
If you're using grub (which you must be if "/boot" is an LV or part of
an LV), you don't need that flag.
On 12/02/14 09:56, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 00:34 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> On Ma, 11 feb 14, 23:20:11, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>> IOW there is no reason why somebody shouldn't install
>>> nearly all available packages.
Depending on your definition of "reason" ;p
>>
>> Of co
On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 00:34 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Ma, 11 feb 14, 23:20:11, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > IOW there is no reason why somebody shouldn't install
> > nearly all available packages.
>
> Of course there is. Besides the waste of space there are many packages
> that run daemons whi
On Ma, 11 feb 14, 10:15:20, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> Okay I figured out how to make more partitions on LVM, just want to
> make sure if the bootable flag on the LVM should be ON or OFF
grub and/or Linux doesn't care much about the bootable flag.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Ma, 11 feb 14, 23:20:11, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> IOW there is no reason why somebody shouldn't install
> nearly all available packages.
Of course there is. Besides the waste of space there are many packages
that run daemons which one might not need.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 21:14 +, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > ACTIVE'/dev/Debian/Root' [8.19 GiB] inherit
> - The size of the Root LV is more than plenty for /+/usr
> combined for all but the biggest installs.
No, it isn't, if you will test plenty of DEs and if you will add many
large
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 09:11:50PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> Okay, I installed debian now, a perfect install with LVM.
> Here is the output of df -H
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> rootfs 8.7G 330M 7.9G 5% /
> udev 11M
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 05:00:11PM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> Anubhav Yadav:
> > Okay, I installed debian now, a perfect install with LVM.
> > Here is the output of df -H
> >
> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > rootfs 8.7G 330M 7.9G 5% /
>
>
> You usually can get away with a much smaller root filesystem if you use
> a separate /usr. The good thing is that you won't run into trouble with
> dozens of kernels installed (they take more than 100MB in /lib/modules
> each).
I am still learning. And I am not that strict on space as I have a 7
Anubhav Yadav:
> Okay, I installed debian now, a perfect install with LVM.
> Here is the output of df -H
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> rootfs 8.7G 330M 7.9G 5% /
You usually can get away with a much smaller root filesystem if you use
a separ
Okay, I installed debian now, a perfect install with LVM.
Here is the output of df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 8.7G 330M 7.9G 5% /
udev 11M 0 11M 0% /dev
tmpfs830M 754k 830M 1% /run
/
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> Okay I figured out how to make more partitions on LVM, just want to
> make sure if the bootable flag on the LVM should be ON or OFF
I don't think LVM partitions can be booted at this point in time
without having more fun than you thought you
Okay I figured out how to make more partitions on LVM, just want to
make sure if the bootable flag on the LVM should be ON or OFF
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> Yes. Partition manually, and create a partition to hold *all* your
> Linux data. However, rather than selecting a filesystem type, you
> choose "Physical volume for LVM", and then configure LVM. It will
> then let you use this partition for a new LVM volume group. Once
> that's done you can a
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> [...]
> Windows was very bad again and it created two primary partitions,one 79 GB
> for the windows, and the other 86 mb for bootloader.
Funny thing about that. They're sort of imitating the Linux community
with that, except the Linux comm
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 07:55:38PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> Hello everyone, I have got some good news.
> The hdd is now back from the dead,alive and working well.
Alright!
> I went to my friend who had that casing. He attached my hdd to
> his windows 7 machine and as usual, it didn't show up
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 02:20:29AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> I am reading a lot on LVM, and it seems that I have a small doubt. I
> found this on tldp HOWTO on LVM:
>
> > root on LVM requires an initrd image that activates the root LV. If a
> > kernel is upgraded without building the necessar
I am reading a lot on LVM, and it seems that I have a small doubt. I
found this on tldp HOWTO on LVM:
> root on LVM requires an initrd image that activates the root LV. If a kernel
> is upgraded without building the necessary initrd image, that >kernel will be
> unbootable. Newer distributions s
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:46:59PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> >From the three possible choice you have enlisted me, I think lvm seems
> to be the best option for me, '
> so that I can give very little allocation to /var or /temp, and I can
> later expand these logical volumes whenever
> required
>From the three possible choice you have enlisted me, I think lvm seems
to be the best option for me, '
so that I can give very little allocation to /var or /temp, and I can
later expand these logical volumes whenever
required?
A couple of questions:
1) Suppose I give more allocation to /var and
On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 04:23:27PM -0500, Doug wrote:
> On 02/09/2014 04:05 PM, Roger Leigh wrote:
>
> /snip/
> > On W
> > On Linux, there are three possibilities which mitigate all these
> > things:
> >
> > 1) Use LVM. You can use the entire drive as a single physical volume
> > (PV) and the
Hello everyone, I have got some good news.
The hdd is now back from the dead,alive and working well.
I went to my friend who had that casing. He attached my hdd to
his windows 7 machine and as usual, it didn't show up.
So I had a debian laptop with me , and I connected the hdd to that
laptop and
Do you have a live CD/DVD/USB/SD? You might ask your friend to let you
download Knoppix, for instance, and burn it to a CD.
Or the install disk should do, really, if you are comfortable with the
command line.
Go into the BIOS with the drive detached. Set the BIOS to boot to
install media first, w
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Doug wrote:
> [...]
> I don't understand LVM, but I tried to install some distro just to
> learn about it, and it would only install using LVM, which meant
> that it would only install on the entire hard drive. No partitions,
> no Windows, no nothing. I installed i
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> [...]
> And, sorry to seem slow, but why would a messed up hard drive prevent
> access to the BIOS? Now a faulty motherboard could, and it is not
> unheard of for repairs to fail to function.
While there is a possibility that he's taken the cov
On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 17:24:41 -0500
Doug wrote:
>
> I remember seeing you or someone writing that multiple partitions
> are not useful. I respectfully disagree. Unless someone is storing a
> humongous amount of files on their system, there should be lots of
> space available on a 1TB drive for W
On 2/10/14, Schlacta, Christ wrote:
>> 3) Use ZFS. Allocate the drive as a single zpool. You can then create
>> I've tried all three. For Linux, using LVM is easy and can be done
> I use zfs with debian wheezy, and am migrating to using zfs almost
> ZFS is awesome, and I've never lost any d
>
> 3) Use ZFS. Allocate the drive as a single zpool. You can then create
>zfs volumes for all the separate bits. However, you don't have the
>space wastage issues since all the data is in a single pool, and
>you can adjust the size allocations/quotas on demand for each
>individu
On 02/09/2014 05:04 PM, Joe wrote:
On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 16:23:27 -0500
Doug wrote:
I don't understand LVM, but I tried to install some distro just to
learn about it, and it would only install using LVM, which meant
that it would only install on the entire hard drive. No partitions,
no Windows,
On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 16:23:27 -0500
Doug wrote:
> >
> I don't understand LVM, but I tried to install some distro just to
> learn about it, and it would only install using LVM, which meant
> that it would only install on the entire hard drive. No partitions,
> no Windows, no nothing. I installed i
On 02/09/2014 04:05 PM, Roger Leigh wrote:
/snip/
On W
On Linux, there are three possibilities which mitigate all these
things:
1) Use LVM. You can use the entire drive as a single physical volume
(PV) and then carve it up into separate logical volumes (LVs). This
allows exactly the s
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 12:31:06PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
>
> yaro wrote:
> > Separate /usr is unneeded and actually complicates boot for little benefit.
>
> It allows you to mount it read-only (or not at all when there's a
> problem). It only complicates boot due to the practice of putting
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 08:27:15AM -0800, David Guntner wrote:
>
> It's not just a matter of capacity. I've got a 1TB drive, and I still
> partition them into separate sections:
>
> > $ df -k
> > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used
> > Available Use% Mounte
On 2/9/2014 2:57 AM, Schlacta, Christ wrote:
On Feb 8, 2014 10:27 PM, "David Christensen" mailto:dpchr...@holgerdanske.com>> wrote:
>
> On 02/08/2014 09:54 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
>>
>> You mean to say, I should remove my hdd, boot my laptop using a usb,
>> and then connect the hdd live in
On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 01:12:06 -0800
David Christensen wrote:
...
> diagnostic tool. Again, beware that bad HDD electronics can damage
> whatever you plug the HDD into, so choose your Guinea pigs carefully:
Never heard that before, but I'm certainly no expert on such things. Do
have further inf
On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 11:24:54AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> > What happens if you post the laptop, then engage the hard drive after you
> > boot into a Linux live usb?
>
> You mean to say, I should remove my hdd, boot my laptop using a usb,
> and then connect the hdd live into the laptop?
>
On 02/08/2014 11:55 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
I wanted to partition the hdd,but now my hdd has been corrupt ...
My next step would be to download, burn, and run the HDD manufacturer's
diagnostic tool. Again, beware that bad HDD electronics can damage
whatever you plug the HDD into, so choose
> Have you checked the OP's hard drive and friend's laptop for SATA hot-plug
> interoperability specification compliance?
Although I am a CS student, I should better wait, and not put my friend's hdd
in jeopardy. I will report what happens when I get my hands on the
casing and connect
the broken h
On 02/08/2014 11:57 PM, Schlacta, Christ wrote:
... panels that also protect ram or any other pcbs, you generally
shouldn't run system with those covers missing.
+1
Wikipedia has it in fairly simple words:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#Hotplug
"The Serial ATA Spec includes lo
> Understand that if the HDD has bad electronics, anything you plug it into
> could be damaged.
> Do you have an anti-static wrist strap and spare anti-static bags?
No, But I got myself a meeting with my friend who runs a laptop repairing shop,
who is willing to give me access to his hdd casing.
On 02/08/2014 10:29 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
Now, If I remove my hdd and plug it in the dell
laptop and then boot the laptop?
Understand that if the HDD has bad electronics, anything you plug it
into could be damaged.
I always keep an old desktop machine around as my "workbench". If I
smo
On Feb 8, 2014 10:27 PM, "David Christensen"
wrote:
>
> On 02/08/2014 09:54 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
>>
>> You mean to say, I should remove my hdd, boot my laptop using a usb,
>> and then connect the hdd live into the laptop?
>> Can it further damage the hdd?
>
>
> YES!
>
> And, damage the motherb
> YES!
>
> And, damage the motherboard.
> NO!
I was waiting for someone to reply. Thanks!
Now, If I remove my hdd and plug it in the dell
laptop and then boot the laptop? Can I try that?
And then maybe connect a live usb to that?
Will it work?
--
Regards,
Anubhav Yadav
Imperial College of Engin
On 02/08/2014 09:54 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
You mean to say, I should remove my hdd, boot my laptop using a usb,
and then connect the hdd live into the laptop?
Can it further damage the hdd?
YES!
And, damage the motherboard.
I should give this a try!
NO!
If you want to hot-plug hard dr
> What happens if you post the laptop, then engage the hard drive after you
> boot into a Linux live usb?
You mean to say, I should remove my hdd, boot my laptop using a usb,
and then connect the hdd live into the laptop?
Can it further damage the hdd? I should give this a try!
--
Regards,
Anub
> Don't give up yet. Have you a friend who could let you look at your
> hard-drive yourself?
I have got a friend's laptop (Dell) right now in my room, so I am thinking of
removing my hdd and putting that hdd on the dell laptop and trying to
get into a linux boot using the hdd.
>
> And, sorry to
On Feb 8, 2014 12:26 PM, "Anubhav Yadav" wrote:
>
>
> On 9 Feb 2014 01:41, "Schlacta, Christ" wrote:
> >
> > If it was a Windows system they connected your drive to, they probably
didn't actually give it a good checking . A new hard drive can be had for
between $50 and $150 depending on your need
On Saturday 08 February 2014 10:21:07 Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> Something really bad happened. I went to format all my partitions
> from the windows 8 installation menu (Bootable usb) and when I went
> to format boot partition of windows 100 mb,the installer hanged
> (typical of windows) After waiting
On 02/08/2014 02:21 AM, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
Something really bad happened. ...
No problem. Part of the FOSS hobby is breaking your toy and then having
to fix it. :-)
First, looking back on this thread, I see a meta-problem. Please read
these (adjust for context):
http://www.email
> Someone asked how much RAM you have. How much? 1G is not enough with Gnome 3.
>
> More than 4G is more than is necessary under many "normal" loads, but
> if you don't have 4G, 4G is reasonable. If you can add memory or
> replace what you have and have the money to spare.
I have 8 GB ram :)
> Wh
Something really bad happened. I went to format all my partitions from
the windows 8 installation menu (Bootable usb) and when I went to
format boot partition of windows 100 mb,the installer hanged (typical
of windows) After waiting for say half an hour, I hard-rebooted the
laptop and it was stuck
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 09:50:21PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 06/02/14 21:32, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
> > I meant an example of stuff which should be in / but are in fact in /usr.
>
> Sorry. I'm curious about that too.
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=%2Fusr+site%3Alists.debian.org%2F
On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 12:27:55AM +, Klaus wrote:
>
> On 07/02/14 23:42, Chris Bannister wrote:
> >On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:38:36AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> >>I face a question now:
> >>1) Should I take time to learn a new twm, or should I install both twm and
> >>xfce.
> >apt-cache s
On 07/02/14 23:42, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:38:36AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
I face a question now:
1) Should I take time to learn a new twm, or should I install both twm and xfce.
apt-cache show twm, there is only one! :)
Ah, Friday night
apt-cache search twm !
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:38:36AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> I face a question now:
> 1) Should I take time to learn a new twm, or should I install both twm and
> xfce.
apt-cache show twm, there is only one! :)
--
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who ar
butsu butsu butsu butsu ...
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I have an Asus laptop, with 720 gigs hardisk and i5 processor.
> Right now I have a dual boot of Windoze (only for playing fifa
> and assassins creed) and debian wheezy 64 bit.
Someone suggested VM
Le 07.02.2014 06:08, Anubhav Yadav a écrit :
Simply that, if you intend to take i3, you will have to learn to
think
differently. My opinion is that tiling wm are far more efficient
than
classic stacking window managers, but it indeed changed my habits.
Since
then, for example, I do not use an
resent to list
Original Message
Subject: Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning
advice.
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:25:18 +1100
From: Scott Ferguson
To: Anubhav Yadav
On 07/02/14 16:01, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
>> Defining "desktop" is the tri
> Simply that, if you intend to take i3, you will have to learn to think
> differently. My opinion is that tiling wm are far more efficient than
> classic stacking window managers, but it indeed changed my habits. Since
> then, for example, I do not use any file explorer, they are slower than
> com
> Defining "desktop" is the tricky bit (to some it only means where the
> box sits). In this instance I've assumed the OP means office apps, bit
> of gaming, internet apps - so I'd go go for a two slice setup, with a
> separate / and /home, with and a swap file. For a similar "desktop" in a
> busin
On 06/02/14 21:32, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
>
>
> Le 06.02.2014 11:03, Scott Ferguson a écrit :
>> On 06/02/14 20:09, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Le 05.02.2014 19:31, John Hasler a écrit :
yaro wrote:
> Separate /usr is unneeded and actually complicates b
Le 06.02.2014 11:03, Scott Ferguson a écrit :
On 06/02/14 20:09, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Le 05.02.2014 19:31, John Hasler a écrit :
yaro wrote:
Separate /usr is unneeded and actually complicates boot for little
benefit.
It allows you to mount it read-only (or not at all when
On 06/02/14 20:09, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
>
>
> Le 05.02.2014 19:31, John Hasler a écrit :
>> yaro wrote:
>>> Separate /usr is unneeded and actually complicates boot for little
>>> benefit.
>>
>> It allows you to mount it read-only (or not at all when there's a
>> problem). It only
Le 05.02.2014 15:08, Anubhav Yadav a écrit :
I do not know for awesome, but for i3, the reason could be to avoid
learning
a new way of thinking. I3 is not only efficient in a memory and CPU
point of
view, but also in term of user's time, if you learn how to use it.
Tiling Wm
are different fr
Le 05.02.2014 19:31, John Hasler a écrit :
yaro wrote:
Separate /usr is unneeded and actually complicates boot for little
benefit.
It allows you to mount it read-only (or not at all when there's a
problem). It only complicates boot due to the practice of putting
stuff
that belongs under /
On 02/05/2014 03:00 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> I liked Gnome 2 on Debian 5 and 6. When I upgraded to Debian 7, I
> disliked Gnome 3. So, I settled for Xfce. Since then, I've
> discovered MATE -- a fork of Gnome 2 with packages available for
> Debian (and others):
>
> http://mate-desktop
On 02/04/2014 11:16 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
... when my computer boots up, it takes like 25 seconds more
to get started after entering the username and password. That is 25 seconds
of more wait after logging in.
That's a symptom of misconfigured and/or conflicting software packages.
Another
On 02/05/2014 12:43 AM, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
It's GDM. I haven't tried any other on this laptop, I can install
lightDM. But then after formatting
I am going to ditch gnome and switch to awesome.
I liked Gnome 2 on Debian 5 and 6. When I upgraded to Debian 7, I
disliked Gnome 3. So, I settled
yaro wrote:
> Separate /usr is unneeded and actually complicates boot for little benefit.
It allows you to mount it read-only (or not at all when there's a
problem). It only complicates boot due to the practice of putting stuff
that belongs under / under /usr.
> Most Linux distributions rely o
y...@marupa.net grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 05, 2014 08:27:15 AM David Guntner wrote:
>> Can't speak for him, but for me it's a segmenting issue. If I have to
>> wipe / for example, I'm not wiping things in /usr or /usr/local (where
>> my locally-installed programs go) u
I prefer to have everything in /, even /home, but OTOH data for audio
productions always gets to another HDD than to the HDD where the Linux
is installed. The advantage of having everything in / is that HDD space
automatically is allocated as needed, OTOH regarding to performance I
use a second HDD
On Wednesday, February 05, 2014 08:27:15 AM David Guntner wrote:
> Zenaan Harkness grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> > On 2/5/14, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> >>[...]
> >>
> > Nowadays, the only partitions I use are:
> > /boot - about 1GiB
>
> Unless you're planning on having a lot of different kernels i
Zenaan Harkness grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On 2/5/14, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
>>[...]
> Nowadays, the only partitions I use are:
> /boot - about 1GiB
Unless you're planning on having a lot of different kernels installed,
you really don't need a full gig for /boot (it doesn't hurt anything,
thou
> I do not know for awesome, but for i3, the reason could be to avoid learning
> a new way of thinking. I3 is not only efficient in a memory and CPU point of
> view, but also in term of user's time, if you learn how to use it. Tiling Wm
> are different from the standard ones.
>
I don't really get
On Wed 05 Feb 2014 at 18:29:01 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> > Network Manager isn't good, it's bad, however if you like it, you can
> > use it with Xfce too and don't worry about installing GNOME
> > dependencies, since Xfce is based on much GNOME stuff. Regarding to
> > Thunar vs Nautlius, note
Le 05.02.2014 13:59, Anubhav Yadav a écrit :
Network Manager isn't good, it's bad, however if you like it, you
can
use it with Xfce too and don't worry about installing GNOME
dependencies, since Xfce is based on much GNOME stuff. Regarding to
Thunar vs Nautlius, note that if you install all th
> Network Manager isn't good, it's bad, however if you like it, you can
> use it with Xfce too and don't worry about installing GNOME
> dependencies, since Xfce is based on much GNOME stuff. Regarding to
> Thunar vs Nautlius, note that if you install all that automatic crap,
> than Thunar anyway wi
On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 17:49 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> I have tried xfce and I believe that its a great great desktop environment,
> However I am restricted in using that for a couple of reasons.
> 1) It does not seem to have a good network manager.
> the network manager in gnome lets us define
> The slowness you've been
> noticing, as people have pointed out, may be due do GNOME and
> whichever start-up proggies it has. I'd recommend LXDE, XFCE or
> fluxbox instead of awesome though.
>
I have tried xfce and I believe that its a great great desktop environment,
However I am restricted in
I stay with MBR and recommend before switching to LVM, to test the usage
in a virtual machine. As long as the maximum size of your HDDs is
<= 2 TB MBR doesn't cause issues and it definitively is easier to use
MBR than LVM, including resizing partitions. The advantage that you can
enlarge a "partiti
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> 2) As you can see in the screenshot, gparted shows that the hdd is
> only 698 gb whereas when purchased it was 720 GB. Any ways to recover
> the lost sectors back?
As people pointed out, GB and GiB are different[1]. However, 720GB is
670
On Wednesday 05 February 2014 08:43:15 Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> > Also, does it just wait as though it is checking your
> > credentials, or do you actually login, but get a spinning cursor
> > or something else?
>
> Yes, spinning cursor! Exactly!
As you suggest yourself, ditch GNOME 3.
Lisi
--
T
On Wednesday 05 February 2014 06:33:35 Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> 2) As you can see in the screenshot, gparted shows that the hdd is
> only 698 gb whereas when purchased it was 720 GB. Any ways to
> recover the lost sectors back?
No, it does not say that you have 698 Gigabytes (decimal), it says
that
Le 05.02.2014 07:46, Zenaan Harkness a écrit :
On 2/5/14, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
Hello list,
I have an Asus laptop, with 720 gigs hardisk and i5 processor.
Right now I have a dual boot of Windoze (only for playing fifa
and assassins creed) and debian wheezy 64 bit.
Here is the screenshot of
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Chris Bannister
wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 12:46:07PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
>>
>> Because when my computer boots up, it takes like 25 seconds more
>> to get started after entering the username and password. That is 25 seconds
>> of more wait after loggin
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 12:46:07PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
>
> Because when my computer boots up, it takes like 25 seconds more
> to get started after entering the username and password. That is 25 seconds
> of more wait after logging in.
Is that logging in at the tty prompt or through a GDM,
On 02/04/2014 11:00 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
The HDD I have in my laptop has somewhat low rpms, maybe that's
the issue?
Its a sata HDD with 5400 rpms!
5400 vs. 7200 RPM is measurable, but HDD vs. SSD is amazing -- ~10 ms
seek time vs. ~100 us latency (2 orders of magnitude!). This is most
no
On 02/04/2014 10:33 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
I have an Asus laptop, with 720 gigs hardisk and i5 processor.
Right now I have a dual boot of Windoze ... and debian wheezy 64 bit.
Debian takes a lots of time for booting up ...
There was a tool which gave the read-write speeds of my hdd,
that was me
> Assumptions cannot necessarily be proven wrong.
>
> Please prove your assumption is right. If you attempt to do this, you
> will find your assumption is wrong.
>
> Also: How do you do upgrade on Debian?
> Answer this, and you will also prove yourself wrong.
>
> So, the job of proving is for the s
On 2/5/14, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
>> I used to use multiple partitions as you do.
>>
>> Nowadays, the only partitions I use are:
>> /boot - about 1GiB
>> / - root partition, the rest
>> This way, it's really simple, and the old reasons (for most home users
>> at least) for having multiple partitions
> I used to use multiple partitions as you do.
>
> Nowadays, the only partitions I use are:
> /boot - about 1GiB
> / - root partition, the rest
> This way, it's really simple, and the old reasons (for most home users
> at least) for having multiple partitions are no longer valid (separate
> backups
On 2/5/14, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 2/5/14, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
>> I have an Asus laptop, with 720 gigs hardisk and i5 processor.
>> 2) As you can see in the screenshot, gparted shows that the hdd is
>> only 698 gb whereas when purchased it was 720 GB. Any ways to recover
>> the lost sector
On 2/5/14, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I have an Asus laptop, with 720 gigs hardisk and i5 processor.
> Right now I have a dual boot of Windoze (only for playing fifa
> and assassins creed) and debian wheezy 64 bit.
> Here is the screenshot of my current partitions.
> http://i.imgur.co
Hello list,
I have an Asus laptop, with 720 gigs hardisk and i5 processor.
Right now I have a dual boot of Windoze (only for playing fifa
and assassins creed) and debian wheezy 64 bit.
Debian takes a lots of time for booting up and some folks on irc
said that I should be trying systemd. I did tha
Karsten M. Self said on Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 05:27:00PM +0100:
> > encountered is discover, so it's a pretty small number).
>
> This is a bug and should be reported as such.
It was reported, but not by me.
> Does Bug #178944 match your observations?
That would be the one.
M
pgp0.pgp
Des
on Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:08:22PM +0100, Ben Kal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On 4 Jun 2003 lists1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<...>
> > Did I make opt too small?
>
> Only you may know. What would you want to put into it? It is true that
> by default there is no /opt in a Debian installation, bu
on Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 01:36:41PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> lists1 said on Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:34:13PM -0400:
> > The box is 1.3 Ghz, 128 MB ram, single 13.9 GB hard disk. Planned use, is
> > light apache, light bind, light mail server (debian mailing list will be the
on Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 12:25:56AM +0200, Frank Gevaerts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 05:51:12PM -0400, lists1 wrote:
> > Thanks to all. I'm going to print out the Partitioning mini-faq, as it
> > answers some other questions, and I'll use the examples for suid, remount,
On 5 Jun 2003 "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Ben Kal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [snip]
>> AFAIK the guide to the size of swap is the amount of RAM: make it equal to
>> or twice that amount. By that standard you can cut down swap at least to
>> half what you now plan to make it.
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