General :: Faster To Have More Primary Partitions?
Mar 13, 2011Why is it faster to have more primary partitions when using Linux? Please give some real examples; I know some theoretical reasons but I don't understand them well.
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General :: Which Partitions Should Be Set As Primary
Nov 17, 2010Which partitions should be set as primary, /, /home, /tmp, /var, /boot or any other?
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May 10, 2010I was unsatisfied with the 40second boot time of lucid and was searching for a solution for a while but didn't find anything yet. But today I found a way to boot 10seconds quicker.Lucid is installed here as suggested by the installer:
Primary rootpartition (/dev/sda1)
Logical partition (/dev/sda4)
swap (/dev/sda5)
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General :: Reading Partitions On Non-primary HDD?
Apr 28, 2010I have a laptop with Ubuntu 9.10 installed. It will not boot to the login screen. If I remove this HDD and connect it as a secondary drive to another PC running Ubuntu, will I be able to access the files on this HDD? There is a lot of data which I haven't backed up which I need to retreive. I don't think the hard drive has failed.
View 6 Replies View RelatedHardware :: Change Primary Partitions To Logical Partitions AND Migrate Their Data?
Mar 28, 2010I've installed Arch Linux onto my Western Digital SATA drive.I love it, best ever, however, I need the fglrx proprietry driver for better 3-d performace, and decided to create a new partition. I decided to install Linux Mint.Sadly, in all my noobishness, I forgot about the 4 primary partition limit (oops!) and as I have /, /home, swap, and /boot partitions (all primary) already installed, I have run into a bit of a problem.I resized my /home partition (almost 500GB) to about 225, and was then told I have over 200GB unusable space. Is it possible for me to change at least 1 of my primary partitions to logical partitions AND keep all the data intact (AND edit the arch configuration so that it'll still work) so I can install a second linux? I sincerely doubt it
View 10 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Why Are Logical Partitions Preferred Over Primary
May 9, 2011So I noticed while using guided partitioning that most distro installers will attempt to create a logical partition for the root file system besides the swap and /boot on the HDD. Why is this the case? Why does the partition for root file system have to be logical and not primary?
View 10 Replies View RelatedUbuntu Installation :: More Than 4 Primary Partitions Cant Be Done?
Jan 28, 2010I am having a 250 GB hard disk in my Acer Laptop.
C: - a 65 Gb partition with Win7.
D: - a 150 GB partition with general data.
and 2 partitions by default - a 13 GB and a 3.5 GB one( I guess backup and recovery by Acer or sumthn)
I shrank the D: partition to 135 GB and had made the 15 GB unallocated space to install Ubuntu. Everytime I checked I got the free space shows as 'unusable' in the Ubuntu partitioner. I tried shrinking again with EPM, Win Disk Management and also Ubuntu partitioner. Each time the free space which showed up said Unusable. A friend of mine advised me to defragment and use 'GParted' through the live cd. I did so and when click on the unallocated space to format it said "IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO CREATE MORE THAN 4 PRIMARY PARTITIONS. If you want more partitions you should first create an extended partition. Such a partition can contain other partitions. Because an extended partition is also a primary partition it might be necessary to remove a primary partition first."
I didnt know all of my partitions were primary! And I dont even want D: to be primary. It just is there to hold some data.
Ubuntu :: HP Pavillion: Too Many Primary Partitions
Apr 30, 2010I just got an Hp Pavillion laptop, and I'm trying to install Ubuntu. I resized the Windows 7 partition, and tried to install, but was unable because you can have no more than 4 primary partitions. Is there any way around this?
The current partitions are:
Windows 7 ntfs file system
BOOT
RECOVERY
HP_TOOLS
Ubuntu :: Limit Of 4 Primary Partitions
Aug 25, 2010Gparted: How do I get around this? It says to use logical partitions, but how?
View 8 Replies View RelatedRed Hat :: How To Define The Three Partitions (also Swapp) Primary
Jun 11, 2010i have 3 primary partition as follow:
sda1 -> ext3 /boot 1023 cilinder
sda2 -> swapp 2048 MB (i have 1024MB of RAM)
sda3 -> ext3 /
GRUB tell me where to put MBR, and i have to choose beetween sda and sda1, which is the good choice and why? Is right to define the three partitions (also swapp) primary?
Ubuntu Installation :: Not Possible To Create More Than 4 Primary Partitions?
Dec 1, 2010I'm trying to install Crunchbang on a partition I made. I managed to resize my Ubuntu for space to install Crunchbang (which essentially is another Linux OS).I currently have Ubuntu 10.10 and Win7 currently installed. The error I get in GParted is the one above in the title. I know there is a way to install a third OS but this problem is killing me. I need some to help my step-by-step. I'm not that bright when comes to technical terms and writing stuff in the terminal. My current filing system:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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Red Hat / Fedora :: F11 Install Created 2 Primary Partitions
Jan 17, 2010I used Acronis' Disk Director Suite 10.0 ["DDS"] to create 7 logical partitions of 23GB each, into one of which I asked Fedora 11 to install. Fedora 11 completely ignored me and created 2 primary partitions of its own: a 217.4GB, a 2GB and a 2GB "unallocated." I will likely delete this installation for a number of reasons. How can I force fedora to install into a 23GB logical partition that I created for just that purpose? If I can't use DDS-created partitions then why do I need DDS-created partitions?
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May 3, 2010I'd be very grateful if some charitable person could help with a problem. I have a portion of unallocated space, 15GB, which is situated to the left of all my other partitions (according to GParted). Unfortunately I already have 4 primary partitions. Although I am willing to delete my last partition, I still amn't sure how I could go about reclaiming the 2 portions of unallocated space under one new partition
View 2 Replies View RelatedUbuntu Installation :: 3 Other OS - 4 Primary Partitions Of Equal Size
Jun 21, 2010I'm trying to install Ubuntu, Windows 7, Meego, and Android x86 for a project. Here is what I have done so far: Partition the drive into 4 primary partitions of equal size (10gb each). Install Windows7, Android, and Meego onto separate partitions, in that order. Then, install Ubuntu, hoping that GRUB automatically detects the other OS's and creates entries for them. Unfortunately, the only entries in GRUB are for Ubuntu and Windows 7. How do I get to the other 2 OS's (Android and Meego) to show up?
View 4 Replies View RelatedUbuntu Installation :: Change Primary Partitions Into Logical?
May 9, 2011I have first installed Windows7 to sda2 (sda1 being the MBR). Then I installed Ubuntu as follows: sda3 /boot, sda5 swap (sda4 being the Extended partition), sda6 /, sda7 /home. So far so good. Windows and Ubuntu worked fine. I also planned to create another partition for data and two more partitions for Arch Linux. And here is the problem.I just assumed that the Extended partitions were created logical but actually they are also primary. So, as things stand, all my 7 partitions are primary and I cannot create any more partitions.I must've erred somewhere during the Ubuntu installation. Is it possible ti change the Extended partitions into logical, without affecting all the stuff within? Any ideas? Otherwise I will have to delete everything after Windows and install Ubuntu again, making sure that I create logical partitions in the Extended part
View 9 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Advantages Or Disadvantages Of Primary & Extended Partitions?
Jun 27, 2011What are the advantages (or disadvantages) in partitioning a disc into 4 Primary partitions versus 1 Primary & 3 Extended Partitions?
View 4 Replies View RelatedOpenSUSE Install :: Configure Autoyast To Create Three Primary Partitions?
May 18, 2010I'm trying to configure autoyast to create three primary partitions:
/dev/sda1 (/boot)
/dev/sda2 (swap)
/dev/sda3 (/)
This is the XML I've come up with:
HTML Code:
<partitioning config:type="list">
<drive>
<use>all</use>
<initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize>
<partitions config:type="list">
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I seem to be missing an instruction or misunderstand something here.
Fedora Installation :: Cannot Partition And Takes Errors,it Is Of Primary Partitions That Is About 77GB?
Dec 25, 2009when i install fedora 11 after windows 7 ,i can not partition and takes errors,it is of primary partitions that is about 77GB that windows 7 had installed on it ,but when i install ubuntu ,it can be installled without any error ,when i asked for this one said me that ubuntu has grub installer that reference to another where for primary partition ,
View 1 Replies View RelatedUbuntu Installation :: Partitions On Multi-boot--primary Versus Extended?
Jul 12, 2010I'm setting up my laptop to dual boot (default Vista installation and Ubuntu). There's also a possibility I may add XP later as a triple boot.
My laptop came with two partitions already, the second one labelled "Recovery". I was planning on adding three partitions, one for the Ubuntu installation, one for Swap, and one for storing my files (accessible to both OSs). However, this would be five partitions (or six, if I add XP later).
I've never had to deal with this many partitions before and just learned about the maximum of four primary partitions.
Ubuntu Installation :: New Machine Has 4 Primary Partitions; Unallocated Space "unusable"?
Feb 10, 2010My motherboard on my old HP laptop died, so I bought a new machine that's running Windows 7.The machine is a Compaq (HP) and has a 250 Gig hard disk. I used Windows Disk Manager to shrink the space Windows is in so I can install Ubuntu in that space.When I start the partitioner it says the free space is unusable. I ran Gparted and sure enough, there are already 4 primary partitions on my drive:
/dev/sda1 = ntfs - SYSTEM
/dev/sda2 = ntfs
unallocated
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General :: Iethernet 10 / 100 In LAN Transfer Faster Than USB 1.0?
Jun 14, 2010I have an old laptop (PIII 800MHz, with 256 RAM) that I wish to use as my home server: it'll have to serve just two people, so I think that I'll be more than ok as for the RAM and the CPU.The issue is about data, because the internal hard disk is a 12GB, that is...ridicolous! I have more than 60GB of mixed storage and counting (images, videos and music) in an external usb hd. I could put the hd in my desktop pc just to serve the big files through ethernet or let it inside its usb box attached to the laptop.
The question is: which of these solutions will be the fastest? USB 1.0 attached to the server (laptop) or internal hard disk serving files via 10/100 ethernet to the laptop on demand?what about your experience? Is the difference based on a human notable scale?
General :: Rsync -z Vs Scp ... Which One Is Faster Over Network
Dec 3, 2010I often have to transfer huge data over our LAN from one computer to another. The size of the files varies and can be somewhere from 2 GB to 50GB or more! The only accepted connection protocol between machines are ssh; and rsync and scp are the only options available for copying over network (unison is not installed). I usually use rsync with "-z" option to copy over network. if "rsync -z" is faster than "scp" for data transfer?
View 5 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Why Is JFS Faster Than A Raw Device For 1.5TB Disk
Aug 19, 2010I have a 4 * 1.5TB RAID5 disk array (software linux RAID, formatted with jfs) on my Fedora 12 system and want to expand it by adding another 1.5TB disk. I have added a drive to the system and conducted a simple performance check on it to make sure it was functioning properly:
Code:
# dd if=/tmp/bigfile.dat of=/dev/sdg1
5478774+1 records in
5478774+1 records out
2805132609 bytes (2.8 GB) copied, 168.77 s, 16.6 MB/s
But 16.6 MB/s is lousy. I ran an iostat -dmx 2 on this drive at the time of this lousy performance, and typical output was:
Code:
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rMB/s wMB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sdb 1.50 0.00 258.50 0.00 16.25 0.00 128.74 0.17 0.66 0.36 9.30
sdg 0.00 3556.00 4160.00 32.00 16.25 16.00 15.76 135.73 35.11 0.24 100.05
(note that sda and sdb are a linux raid mirror set for the / filesystem that holds /tmp). I formatted the new drive (/dev/sdg1) with jfs and mounted it under /mnt2:
Code:
# jfs_mkfs /dev/sdg1
jfs_mkfs version 1.1.13, 17-Jul-2008
Warning! All data on device /dev/sdg1 will be lost!
Continue? (Y/N) y
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I would like to know what the performance will be like before I add the disk to the array because I don't want to wait for the whole array to be rebuilt before finding out my array is performing badly. The array is used as part of a mythtv system and has up to 6 simultaneous recordings running on it, so it needs to perform well.
General :: Make Ubuntu 10.04 More Faster On Old Pc?
Jul 27, 2010i run ubuntu 10.04 on my old pc pentium 4, 500mb ram ,how can ido for make faster..
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Jul 27, 2011how can I make my system's booting faster. Is Linux support to increase it?
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Aug 9, 2011I find myself grepping the same codebase over and over. While it works great, each command takes about 10 seconds, so I am thinking about ways to make it faster.So can grep use some sort of index? I understand an index probably won't help for complicated regexps, but I use mostly very simple patters. Does an indexer exist for this case?EDIT: I know about ctags and the like, but I would like to do full-text search.
View 5 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Epiphany Browser 2.30 Is Noticably Faster Than 2.28?
Dec 15, 2010I'm using Linux Mint 8. However, internet browser speed is very slow as compared to using the same computer with Windows. In Linux, I've used Firefox 3.5 and Epiphany 2.28. Epiphany runs somewhat faster than Firefox so I mainly use it for the internet.
What I would like to know is if Epiphany browser 2.30 is noticably faster than 2.28? Should I go thru the trouble of upgrading to Mint 9 inorder to be able to use Epiphany 2.3 - as well as Chromium 8?
General :: Mac-like Tweak To Make Programs Start Faster
Apr 24, 2010I've been working with Macs nowadays and noticed that programs load like "instantly" once it has been open and closed.
I don't know if MAC is pre-fetching them to somewhere but it is good to start Firefox right after you closed it.
what MAC actually does and how this could be implemented ? I have 6gb of ram on my laptop. Running Kubuntu 10.04 RC1.
General :: Combine Two Internet Connections To Get A Faster Connection?
Oct 25, 2010I am using Red Hat Linux enterpriser 4 using two physical LAN cards.There are two different ISP internet lines coming into a single gateway computer. Is it possible that if in our one network we are using 2 MB bandwidth and from another network we are getting 2 MB bandwidth.(Two different Networks) and combine it into 4 MB. In bonding it combine the bandwidth or it do loadbalancing ?
The question is can we accumulate or add these two bandwidth in Linux machine and it sent total bandwidth 4 to the end users ?
Lan Card A
IP Address: 192.168.1.250 2MB Bandwidth
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General :: LVM Partitions Are Equals To OS Partitions?
May 26, 2011When we install a linux OS, we've an option to create partitions. In my laptop I've create partition for /opt, /home, / and /tmp. Are these partitions the same type of partitions as the partitions created by LVM?
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