BARRY MARTIN wrote:
> "This is my partition, I'll set aside a little for me and you'll never
"This is my partition. There are many like it, but this one is mine."
> notice." When creating a new machine I'll pretty much leave the
> partition sizing up to the installer: I figure the programmers know more about
> that stuff than I do. The only time I fiddle is if there are
Ha, the same ones that STILL tell us swap needs to be double RAM. Oh
yeah, that makes real sense with a system that already has 4x as much
RAM as the OS is using! I've run Windows with minimal or no swapfile for
close on 20 years now, only reason I've let it set aside some small
chunk is because of stupid programs that check swapspace rather than
free RAM and fall over if they see "none". Adobe's crap STILL does that.
> multiple hard drives: Mythbuntu system I want the storage/data partition
> all on the second drive; the installer (so far) has by default put
> everything on the first hard drive.
PCLOS seems to mark the swap partition Hidden -- it's nowhere to be
seen, and doesn't amount to much missing HD space (few GB, I'd have to
check). Also makes separate OS and User partitions, which not all of 'em
do.
I got a couple 2.5" hotswap bays for cheap (handy as hell, wish I'd got
more when they were $9 instead of the usual $30!) and four barely-used
laptop HDs, and now all the experimental and linux setups are on those.
Four systems in the space of one without troubling to set up a VM...
> KM> Did I gripe about my idiot board that doesn't like about half
> KM> what I've tried in it? it's supposed to take a pair of 1GB
> <snicker> Apparently the motherboard didn't read it's instruction
> manual!
Haha, yeah... well, it's a PCChips/Amptron board, what do you expect... they're
long since out of business...
> I was sort of looking at the Firefox cache on this machine and it looks
> like it only kept the last two weeks (roughly). ...Was going to check
> but taking too long -- looked like over 27,000 items in the cache2
That's 27,000 little files to help fragment your HD....
> folder. (This machine should be that slow!) And not disagreeing, just
> curious. And yes, as for the 'some sites that might change a lot', my
> home page is a local media site and that information is constantly being
> updated, from as minor as the current temperature to the just-breaking
That's probably being done with javascript, and not cached at all.
> report of the conviction of a local murderer. (Now can drop that 'alledged'!)
Timely news! <g>
> KM> Besides, I disapprove of the cache structure that's 1500 empty
> KM> directories.
> But-but they're there is needed!! <gg>
Funny, Netscape got along perfectly well without 'em, AND cache worked
properly!
FF uses a SQLite database, and if you want that 'cleaned' of dead data,
you have to install the SQLite Manager extension to do it.
> KM> Space and duration are settable.
> (No wonder I'm running low on space with this hard drive!)
Default is something like 10% of your HD.
> .. After advances in particle board, research in subatomic particle board?
...That's what you get if you leave it out in the rain...
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