[TriLUG] Partitioning recommendations

Joseph Mack NA3T jmack at wm7d.net
Fri Jul 13 12:14:11 EDT 2007


On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Jos Purvis wrote:

> ...but not quite the usual question. I have this-here big-ol' 320GB
> secondary disk that I just installed this morning in my workstation.

I got one this size from Intrex a couple of weeks ago, which 
had problems (the replacement was OK). Make sure you run 
badblocks (the exhaustive rw test) and smartctl on it before 
you use it.

Joe

-- 
Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina
jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map
generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml
Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux!



More information about the TriLUG mailing list