Hi Keith,<br><br>Looks like the Swapping will happen once the PC memory is exhausted <br>1) So your point of placing SWAP place in another spare disk is a good decision <br>but we still have the Paging happening  which cant be avoided :)<br>
2) Again moving the /var/log is another good part <br>but there are some locations under /var/  for eg /var/run which creates PID , <br> so why not moving /var/ to your spare instead of just moving /var/log <br><br>Just thoughts <br>
<br>Thanks<br>Philix<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Keith Roberts <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:keith@karsites.net">keith@karsites.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I&#39;ve added a second IDE card to my system on the PCI bus,<br>
and added a small HDD on the Primary Master port for that<br>
IDE card.<br>
<br>
This drive shows up using the Gparted live CD as /dev/hde<br>
Which sounds about right.<br>
<br>
The other drives show up as /dev/hda (Primary Master) and<br>
/dev/hdc (Secondary Master). /dev/hdb is an empty removable<br>
drive caddy (Primary Slave) and /dev/hdd (Seconday Slave) is<br>
the DVD-RW drive.<br>
<br>
So I now have a maximum of 8 IDE ports - 4 on the IDE<br>
controller built into the motherboard (which BTW are all<br>
A-OK), and 4 on the IDE-PCI addon card.<br>
<br>
Vivard on the Ultimate Boot CD recognises the /dev/hde<br>
drive, as being on the PCI controller.<br>
<br>
I was also able to format the 2GB Samsung drive on /dev/hde<br>
as linux-swap using Gparted.<br>
<br>
The largest spare drive I have is ~7 GB, which might be<br>
enough for a linux-swap partition, and a /var/log partition.<br>
<br>
The idea is to have any logging and other intensive disk I/O<br>
on a spare disk drive, so as not wake up the main hard drive<br>
with the Linux root partition on it.<br>
<br>
I just want to write any &#39;disposable data&#39; to a spare<br>
hard disk drive, and keep this seperated from stuff on my<br>
main root partition/linux installation.<br>
<br>
Kind Regards,<br>
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Keith Roberts<br>
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