I’ve been down with some sort of flu type stuff for almost 3 days… besides sleeping and a couple other activities you don’t wanna hear about… I managed to read most of this:
Also read this shorty… ODF.
I should say I got to both of these from Charles Curley’s Wblog.
In the how-to for installing Xubuntu & BOINC for a dedicated cruncher there is a fair amount of detail on partitioning the HDD (page 2). The example drive used is a 10GB drive. Much time has passed since that original how-to was written and posted here (and on the Guru-Mountain team site). 10GB HDDs are getting to be almost rare. 20GBs are considered practically throw away by many and it’s hard to buy a new drive under 80GB. My most recent HDD aquisition was actually a lot of five 40GB 2.5″ (laptop) SATA drives. This has become my ‘drive of choice’ for now.
Here’s a partial cut and paste of my post from Guru-Mountain on the partitioning topic:
2) ASSUMING min HDD size of 10GB… My experience with HDD partitioning indicates letting Ubuntu manage the space will cause you less long term grief. I no longer allocate /boot, /var or /temp but rather ONLY specify a primary partition for /swap (of 512MB to 1024MB), the “/” (root) partition (again another primary & around 8.5GB on a 10GB drive, 15GB on a 20GB drive) and finally another partition (logical or primary) for /home that is the remaining space on the drive. Besides not having issues with /boot filling up or /var/lib/boinc-client being too small there are some real advantages to using this layout should you later need to clone a partition over to another drive.
Jeff (the primary author with my help on the VNC portions) agrees that this ‘how-to’ is due for an update or overhaul to include some other partitioning options and some notes for other Linux variations. So that’s on the ‘to-do’ list.
Good blog… I meant to post up a link to it some time ago but… well u know.
I can certainly identify my Windows experience with much of this.
I’ve found a great organization and a great guy to work with in helios and Ken Starks.
This is were I’ve spent my Saturdays for the last few weeks: Learning Center, Si Se Puede
The Project Director of Si Se Puede (Christina) and her hubby (Ceasar) are also the most fantastic folks. Of course I was highly influenced by the presence of breakfast tacos on my arrival.
Also trying to spend some time evenings fixing up the donated hardware that helios puts into kid’s homes.
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