On Nov 2, m.nine.six ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Neil L. Roeth" wrote: > > > > On Nov 2, Maurice Verhagen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have a IBM Thinkpad 390E which I want to use for Debian. Although my > > > question at the moment is, the IBM uses some sort of 'hibernation' > > > partition. What should I do with this? Can I savely remove this or is it > > > save to keep it anyway. And what can I do when the partition accidentely > > > gets lost? > > > > That is probably for a suspend to disk feature. My Vaio can do that, > > too, as well as suspend to RAM. Suspend to disk takes longer, but > > uses much less power. Since this is controlled by the BIOS, it is > > independent of the operating system, so it should work under Linux. > > I'd keep it, but if you do lose it, you can probably restore it (if > > your notebook uses the Phoenix BIOS). I had to restore mine with the > > lphdisk utility. > > but you should setup the hibernation file before installing the system. > that's the fault that i made. now i can't setup hibernation without > reinstalling and deleting everything on my hd. so i don't use it.
I blew away my hibernate partition when I installed Linux, too, but I had swap and /home on separate partitions (hda3 and hda4), so what I did was make a backup of /home, then repartitioned just those two partitions into one extended partition and one primary partition, with cfdisk. The primary partition was at the end, and I made it into a hibernate partition with lphdisk (http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/). I set up two logical partitions (hda5 and hda6) in the extended partition, made hda5 swap, restored /home to hda6, and that was it! My / and /usr were completely unaffected. (But back them up anyway, since a small error with cfdisk can wipe out a partition instantly. You should read up on mke2fs, mkswap, lphdisk, and remember that you'll need to change fstab. The lphdisk docs are a little ambiguous on whether the partition can be something other than hda4, but the code is not - it has to be hda4. lphdisk is a Linux replacement for the DOS phdisk.exe utility; you could use that, too, if you feel like booting DOS. But it apparently has bugs. I haven't rebooted in weeks, I just use suspend to disk all the time. One added advantage on my Vaio is that suspend to RAM stops my network card from working, suspend to disk does not. -- Neil L. Roeth neil-at-occamsrazor.net
