>From looking at this I and what the sound is I take a stab at this:
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 /dev/hda4 into
different partitions such as:
/ root partition 60M
/var 60M
/usr 860M
/usr/local 860M
or something like that. This also will give you added safety incase of a
crash or just stupidity that occasionally creeps into everyone. Gladly I
know nothing about the win98 stuff but I assume it along that same lines as
a find scan, but I give that to someone else
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans van den Boogert [SMTP:[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)
> /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)
>
> 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. If the disk was reading data
> this would seem normal, but it happens out of the blue, while there is no
> process running that requires disk access.
>
> This happens both under Linux as well as Win98, but it is more pronounced
> under Linux.
>
> I was wondering if it could be because the partitioning I did was too
> minute. My idea was to keep all the Fat32 partitions on one side of the
> disk, all the Linux partitions on the other.
>
> I was thinking myself to re-partition as follows, just to experiment...
>
> /dev/hda1 primary Fat32 (1000M)
> /dev/hda2 primary Fat32 (1700M)
> /dev/hda3 primary Linux ext2 (1840M)
> /dev/hda4 primary Linux swap (100M)
>
> I have a similar partitioning scheme on my desktop and it works fine.
> Still
> I want to check with you guys first to see if I am on the right train of
> thoughts.
>
> -- Hans
>
>
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