I have two disks in my system now: an older 8g with Windows 98 (still need it for my sound work, I'm afrad), and a newer 40g. This one has a 16g vfat32 for audio data, another for other windows data (has documents, also cygwin and a copy of the 6g of windows junk from the old disk--maintained by rsync) and a 6g ext3 for Debian sid and 2g swap.
The old disk has started to fail when the room is warm. Power-supply relay-clikcing sounds. Windows will hang and linux will cite DMA timeouts and will also hang is accessing that disk. If I keep the temperature down, it works perfectly. I may put in another 40g to replace this one. This would have two or more vfat32 partions for the Win98, the cygwin and the documents. I would leave the sound stuff where it is, maybe make the partition bigger. This leaves me with anywhere from 8-16g for new linux partitions. So ... 1. What would be an sane, effective way of setting things up, i.e. move /local, /var, others to their own places? 2. Is it better for the swap to be on a different drive? If so, how does one move it? I have partionmagic on the windows and qparted on linux at my disposal. Thanks for any advice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
