Re: Upgrading Computer

2014-02-12 Thread Schlacta, Christ
On Feb 12, 2014 2:32 PM, "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: > > I am planning on upgrading my Debian Linux tower and am soliciting comments on the following CPU/Motherboard: > > > > AMD FX 8320, 8-core 3.5 GHz, 16.0MB Cache CPU Sounds fine for most uses. > > ASUS M5 A97 R2.0 Motherboard Asus

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-09 Thread Schlacta, Christ
> > 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

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-08 Thread Schlacta, Christ
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

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-08 Thread Schlacta, Christ
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

Re: network setup for xen on a laptop

2014-02-07 Thread Schlacta, Christ
For laptops you need two networks. A nat network and a host only network. On Feb 7, 2014 5:51 AM, "Henning Follmann" wrote: > Hello, > I just setup a laptop for development. > I usually have multiple XEN instances for development purposes. My previous > setup was a desktop with e static ethernet