fyi, as someone who has played around quite a bit with most of the
ways to configure a home workstation, I find the best config currently
is:
Dedicated Fast Enterprise 2TB drive -> /, swap, and /boot (ext4)
Six 2TB Reliable SATA Drives in RAID10 -> /home (ext4 with appropriate
chunksize/etc)
Two
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 01:21:05PM -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>
>> Note, however, that you *need* GRUB2 if your kernel lives in an ext4
>> partition that it's not longer compatible with ext3. Don't do the
>> change without migrati
Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Well, it appears we got the init thingy working. I'm about ready to
> move things around since one of my drives is about full and I need a
> spare to move things around with. I use cp -a to copy things while
> booted from a USB stick do hicky. So far, that has always wo
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
>
> On 03/03/2012 02:48 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
>> The version of the rng-tools Debian package I'm using is
>> '2-unofficial-mt.14-1~60squeeze1'. Are the -T and -R parameters unique
>> to Debian, or is the Gentoo package si
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:49:10 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>> Anything else that could be a gotcha? I plan to move this twice. Once
>> to the spare drive, repartition the OS drive then copy things back over
>> again.
>
> There's no need for the second copy. Create the VG on the sp
Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 12.04.2012 21:49, schrieb Dale:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> Well, it appears we got the init thingy working. I'm about ready to
>> move things around since one of my drives is about full and I need a
>> spare to move things around with. I use cp -a to copy things while
>> booted f
Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 12.04.2012 22:16, schrieb Michael Mol:
>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Dale wrote:
>>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 12/04/12 22:49, Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Well, it appears we got the init thingy working. I'm about ready to
> move things around
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:24:38AM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 01:21:05PM -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>
> > Note, however, that you *need* GRUB2 if your kernel lives in an ext4
> > partition that it's not longer compatible with ext3. Don't do the
> > change wit
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:49:10 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Anything else that could be a gotcha? I plan to move this twice. Once
> to the spare drive, repartition the OS drive then copy things back over
> again.
There's no need for the second copy. Create the VG on the spare drive and
copy everything ov
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 01:21:05PM -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> Note, however, that you *need* GRUB2 if your kernel lives in an ext4
> partition that it's not longer compatible with ext3. Don't do the
> change without migrating to GRUB2 before.
Hm... I wonder what I’m missing in my setup.
Am 12.04.2012 22:16, schrieb Michael Mol:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Dale wrote:
>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> On 12/04/12 22:49, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
Well, it appears we got the init thingy working. I'm about ready to
move things around since one of my drives is about
Am 12.04.2012 21:49, schrieb Dale:
> Howdy,
>
> Well, it appears we got the init thingy working. I'm about ready to
> move things around since one of my drives is about full and I need a
> spare to move things around with. I use cp -a to copy things while
> booted from a USB stick do hicky. So
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Helmut Jarausch
wrote:
> What's the difference (in performance) between fglrx and xf86-video-ati ?
My experience with my first and only ATI video card (a Mobility Radeon
9700), is that the opensource drivers for my chipset are basically
useless for anything 3D. Sl
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Dale wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 12/04/12 22:49, Dale wrote:
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> Well, it appears we got the init thingy working. I'm about ready to
>>> move things around since one of my drives is about full and I need a
>>> spare to move things around
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 12/04/12 22:49, Dale wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> Well, it appears we got the init thingy working. I'm about ready to
>> move things around since one of my drives is about full and I need a
>> spare to move things around with. I use cp -a to copy things while
>> booted fro
On 12/04/12 22:49, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
Well, it appears we got the init thingy working. I'm about ready to
move things around since one of my drives is about full and I need a
spare to move things around with. I use cp -a to copy things while
booted from a USB stick do hicky. So far, that has
Howdy,
Well, it appears we got the init thingy working. I'm about ready to
move things around since one of my drives is about full and I need a
spare to move things around with. I use cp -a to copy things while
booted from a USB stick do hicky. So far, that has always worked and is
pretty fast.
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 09:09:16AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:36:06 -0500
> Canek Pel?ez Vald?s wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger
> > wrote:
> > > Am 11.04.2012 23:16, schrieb ny6...@gmail.com:
> > >
> > >> I use the nouveau drivers beca
On 12/04/12 14:14, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a KMS
fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The binary
drivers perform better and save much more energy. With N
Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
> Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a KMS
> fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The binary
> drivers perform better and save much more energy. With Nouveau, your
> GPU will be running full-on c
On 12/04/12 11:06, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 04/12/2012 09:09:16 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
That was the previous laptop. This current one has an ATI card and I
use ati drivers rather than fglrx for the same reason.
What's the difference (in performance) between fglrx and xf86-video-ati ?
Ther
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:06:17 +0200
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 04/12/2012 09:09:16 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > That was the previous laptop. This current one has an ATI card and I
> > use ati drivers rather than fglrx for the same reason.
>
> What's the difference (in performance) between fglrx
On 04/12/2012 09:09:16 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
That was the previous laptop. This current one has an ATI card and I
use ati drivers rather than fglrx for the same reason.
What's the difference (in performance) between fglrx and xf86-video-ati
?
Do both of them support GPU usage?
Thanks for
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:36:06 -0500
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger
> wrote:
> > Am 11.04.2012 23:16, schrieb ny6...@gmail.com:
> >
> >> I use the nouveau drivers because they update themselves when you
> >> update the kernel, and there's less wo
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