Fedora :: Saving An Install After A Hardware Swap?
Jun 12, 2011
And not just a few bits, mind you. Pretty much everything except the HDD.
In short:
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The Fukushima HP has been officially retired. In it's place there now labours a Toshiba R830-8300. And therein lies a host of problems. The Fuku-HP ran an AMD Turion 64 dual core. The R830 runs an i5-2520M The Fuku-HP ran an Nvidia GeForce 7350m. The R830 runs runs an [8086:126] ??? Dunno what is. But that's what Hardware Lister gives me on the VGA controller) I don't want (for several reasons outlined below) to have to re-install F15.Regardless of all arguments to the contrary, Gnome 3 is a time-consuming PITA to get tweaked into any resemblance of useability Neither the F14 nor the F15 liveCDs will boot to GUI on this laptop to allow a new installation. Not exactly sure what's up with that. I've got a ton of tweaks and data on/in the existing install that I do not wish to lose.
I know for a fact that both Linux and Compiz (acceleration) work peachy keen fine on this box. The second partition has been given over to MINT-11, and works swimmingly!
I have also been able to get to GUI in the F15 install this morning, by the expedience of the following:editing the GRUB kernel line to remove references to nouveau, Nvidia and any mode setting, and booting into Runlevel 3 as root. drilling into X11, and killing xorg.conf, and xorg.conf.d. logging out, back in as myself, and then running startx.
The rub lies in the fact that Gnome-shell fails to load, and drops me back to fallback mode.
So, my goal is to tweak the existing install to run normally on this Toshiba i5. And I'm afraid that's gonna take bigger brains than I have readily available on a Sunday morning after not-enough sleep. (Or any other day of the week with enough sleep.)
I am therefore, at the mercy of the more learned than I.
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Mar 20, 2011
Does one need to Check the Swap filesystem, from time to time
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May 11, 2011
I know its a long shot, but still...
Is it possible to change size of boot and swap without doing a fresh install?
this is how my volume dist is like - root -30 gb, boot 200 mb, swap 8gb, home - 110 gb
my laptop is an amd turion dual core TL-58, with 2 gb ram and 160 gb hard disk...
and i want to change it to what is generally recommended ie boot to 500mb or 1 gb and swap to 4 gb..
the remaining can be added to home...
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RAM for older machines like I use is fairly cheap these days. But flash memory is just as cheap or cheaper. So I'd like to ask about the feasibility of expanding my system's memory using flash memory. And about whether creating a partition for swap on the flash memory, or whether a swap file on the flash device, is the better way to go.
By flash memory I have in mind mainly USB sticks or what are sometimes called "pen drives." But I do also have CF and SD cards that, with the proper cheap adapter (one of which I already own for adapting CF) could be used to create extra swap space. So, what is the current consensus on the feasibility/advisability of using flash memory for swap? I've read about the limited write cycles of flash being an argument against using it for swap. But recent reading indicates to me that the limited write cycles problem applies mostly to older, smaller-capacity flash memory. Some will come out and say that, for larger-capacity flash memory, the life of the device is likely to exceed the amount of time your current computer will be useful (I think I've seen estimates in the range of 3-4 years life--minimum--for newer, higher-capacity flash memory).
A more persuasive argument I've heard against using flash memory for swap is that access times for these devices can be much slower than SATA, and maybe even IDE, hard drives. That would certainly dictate against using flash memory for swap.
So, how about some input on this issue? Anyone using flash memory for swap? If so, what kind (e.g., usb stick or SD/CF)? Are you using a swap file or a swap partition? How's system performance? Likewise, has anyone had flash-memory-used-as-swap die on them? The consequences would undoubtedly be dire. Also, has anyone measured flash memory access times to confirm or refute claims about slow access times? Are some types of flash memory better/worse than others in terms of access times?
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Apr 15, 2010
I found what I believe to be odd behavior on an OpenSuSE 11.0 computer today. I needed to add some disk space on one of our computers and here is what I did: This computer had a separate disk for swap space so I deactivated swap (swapoff -a) and then removed the swap entry from /etc/fstab. I then shut down the computer and replaced what was a single disk used only for swap with a RAID1 hardware mirror.
I then booted the system and added a swap partition and another file system on the new RAID1 volume. Even after activating the new swap space with swap on, no swap ever seems to be actually allocated. The swap space shows up in top, free, "swap -s" and vmstat, but never gets used. I realize that a reboot will result in the swap being used, but is there anyway to get the kernel to use the swap without a reboot.
It's probably worth noting that I verified this behavior on a second computer. That is I turned off swap, removed the swap entry in /etc/fstab and then rebooted. Swap is never actually allocated until a second reboot. By the way, this was discovered when some of our users attempted to run java on the system where I did the first work and they got:
prompt> java -version
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap
Could not create the Java virtual machine.
Yesterday, java was working fine and I got the same results on my test computer. Is this a kernel bug or just odd behavior?
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Saw a reference to putting the swap partition on a separate drive--just minutes after I was considering that approach. Can't find anything recent on the topic, so asking: Is there an advantage to having /swap on a separate HD from data on /home? My thought was that both disks could be active at once, perhaps speeding up a busy application.
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