Re: [LUG] Mounting Partitions

[Austin Gossmeyer <ancwg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:48:17 +0100
> From: gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [LUG] Mounting Partitions
>
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Austin Gossmeyer wrote:
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> >> From: tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:20:45 +0100
> >> Subject: Re: [LUG] Mounting Partitions
> >>
> >> On Thursday 11 June 2009 11:20, Austin Gossmeyer wrote:
> >>> I have 3x17431M and 2x34857M drives on a Ubuntu 9.04 system. I am wondering
> >>> the best way to split them up. At the moment Ubuntu is installed on one of
> >>> the 17431M drives and I was thinking of using one drive for squid logs and
> >>> another for dansguardian logs. I have formatted the other drives but I am
> >>> not sure how to get them in use. What space should I give the log files?
> >>> Thanks in advance.
> >> Put your swap partition on a drive thats nor used for anything else 'during
> >> the day' and if possible on the fastest to access drive. That way your system
> >> can get hold of any swap data asap and in certain situations you'd be amazed
> >> at the speed up.
> >> Tom te tom te tom
> >>
> > How do I deduce which is the fastest?
>
> The hdparm command will do a gross speed test, but the best way to get it
> faster is to not have swap, but buy more memory.
>
At the moment it has a gig of ram.

> Gordon
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