FW: [Malvern] Adding a hard drive.

[ian.pascoe at bt.com]

Chris et al

I know that you all like tinkering with things like this but surely
there must be a utility GUI or console that would do all of this for you
.... Or is it that the commands are disto specific?

Ian Pascoe



-----Original Message-----
From: malvern-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:malvern-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Chris Eilbeck
Sent: 26 March 2005 16:16
To: malvern at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Malvern] Adding a hard drive.


On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 03:46:56PM +0000, Geoff Bagley wrote:
> 
> >I'm not sure it'll make any difference.  It used to be that the 
> >slowest device on an ide bus made the faster one run at its speed but

> >I don't think it's like that any more and it doesn't matter so much 
> >which is master and which is slave.
> > 
> >
> On that subject,  would there be any advantage in putting
> my <swap> partition  on the new drive as /hdc5 ?
> 
> Another ploy might be letting hdb5  be swap for hda1,
>                                  and    let  hda5  be swap for hdb1
> 
> Would that avoid any competition ?

Do you have any problems with the speed of your swapping?  Unless you
know you have a prob I wouldn't bother tinkering.  Chances are you're
probably swapping on all the available swap partitions.

Chris
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Chris Eilbeck
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