> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Marko Vojinovic <vvma...@gmail.com> > To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:57:12 +0100 > Subject: Re: Can one now help? > On Monday, July 19, 2010 04:48:25 JD wrote: > > I wonder why the fedora installer did not create a gpt partitioned disk, > > instead of old dos partitioning scheme. > > Maybe because Windows was already installed previously, and had created the > old dos scheme first?
May be. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> > To: vma...@ipb.ac.rs, Community support for Fedora users < > users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:06:18 +0930 > Subject: Re: Can one now help? > Parshwa Murdia: > >> according to the link: > >> > >> http://digitizor.com/2009/01/31/fedora-speed-tweaks-make-fedora-faster/ > > Marko Vojinovic: > > Not judging this particular link, but in general I wouldn't trust some > > arbitrary advice on speed tweaks before I was sure to understand exactly > what > > they will do to my system, and if the gain is worth the pain. > > I will judge that link, then. I can see quite a few things that I > wouldn't suggest someone does unless they know why they're doing it. > > It suggests settings so no swap is used, at all. Only someone who knows > the ramifications for doing that should decide whether to do it. If > you're low on RAM, as many users are, then you're putting a severe limit > upon your computer doing anything that needs lots of RAM. > So removing the following line from the sysctl.conf file is enough I think: vm.swappiness = 0 to have no problems. > It suggests changing some mounting parameters for normal drive mount > points. Again, not something to do without good reason. Just because > someone says it's good for you is not a good reason, and the reason they > give is completely wrong (a user reply on the page corrects this). The > defaults were chosen by people who felt those were the best options, > you'd need to know more than they did before you went around changing > them. > > It suggests running preload. Another thing that may or may not help you > out. I've never bothered with it, and I haven't found a reason to. > So if the preload has been installed with the command: [fedo...@localhost ~]$ su -c 'yum -y install preload' How could it be uninstalled back to have no trouble? > It suggests using tmpfs for /tmp and /var/tmp. I wouldn't suggest that > unless you do have RAM to spare. If you don't, the moment something > tries to put a big file in one of those places, you're in for some > grief. e.g. Various DVD burning software will create 4 or 8 gigs of > temporary files in one of those locations, while preparing to burn a > DVD. That isn't going to work if you only have 1 gig of RAM. > This can be simple deleted from the sysctl.conf file, I think. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> > To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:10:02 +0930 > Subject: Re: Can one now help? > On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 17:56 -0400, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > Under this scheme, the first partition of your first disk will be > > sda1. > > Let's look at this: > > > > s - controller is SATA > > Or SCSI, or IDE... > > Long ago, it would have been "s" (in /dev/sda) for a SCSI device, or h > for IDE (e.g. /dev/hda). But now they're all treated the same. > Oh I see.
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