[PATCH] kernel/power/swap.c: fix typos in comments - swap partition - order by pertinence

Restoring partition table.

Hello, bad news for me - I lost partition table in my 1Tb hard drive. All what I have it's fdisk output of working drive: Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = ...

Message posted on the August 31st, 2012 - 12:30 PM ET

CentOS 5.3 x86_64 install hangs when format /home partition with 900 GB size

Hi all: I have a problem when install CentOS 5.3 x86_64 . My server spec is: * Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU * West Digital 1TB SATA hard drive * 8GB RAM I installed CentOS 5.3 x86_64 by DVD. I made parttion like this: * /boot 100MB /dev/sda1 * / ...

Message posted on the July 29th, 2009 - 12:35 PM ET

Change root partition

Hi all, how do I change the root partition in my qnap ts-209? I assume I have to create a new image and copy it to the flash, right? Just for the background: I've installed debian on my qnap (btw: thank you for the good work!) and some time later ...

Message posted on the March 9th, 2009 - 5:00 PM ET

Bug#597087: swap space comparison with other distros

Hi! Comparing Debian with other distros, using 2 GB of RAM and a disk with 1.00 TB, we have this (using the default partition layout of the installers, full disk): Debian: 7.0 GB / 6.2 GB swap 1.1 TB /home Mandriva One 2010 Spring: 12 GB / 3.8 GB ...

Message posted on the October 5th, 2010 - 3:00 PM ET

Bug#579948: SunBlade 1000 installation report - fails to mount root partition on /target

Package: installation-reports Boot method: May 2nd netinst daily image for sparc Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/sparc/iso-cd/debian-testing-sparc-netinst.iso Date: Sun May 2 14:38:09 IST 2010 ...

Message posted on the May 2nd, 2010 - 9:50 AM ET

Odd partition tables on Lenny

I've got Lenny installed on a Sun Enterprise 4500. When I list partitions with fdisk, I get duplicate entries, almost as if fdisk is recursing down into slice 3 on all dislabels or something, reading the partition table from that as well. ...

Message posted on the March 24th, 2010 - 6:40 PM ET

Increasing the size of root (/) partition - please help

Host OS: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Guest OS: Windows XP Pro SP3 I am interested in increasing the size of the root (/) partition. Here's a screenshot of the disk (via GParted) ... http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...agpartedb.png/ And, here's ...

Message posted on the April 16th, 2012 - 10:33 AM ET

hibernate: swap on SSD = not fast

Hi, Mindful of what Stan Hoeppner in various posts has written about SSD I thought I'd put swap on an SSD I installed (Samsung SSD 830 128GB) in order to get superfast hibernate. Surprise: it is slower than usual and the disk light is on. swap is ...

Message posted on the August 23rd, 2012 - 11:10 AM ET

Bug#615016: debian-installer: wipes partition table and creates new partitions even when told to use unpartitioned space

Package: debian-installer Version: Lenny and Squeeze Severity: important Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35.11 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C ...

Message posted on the February 24th, 2011 - 6:10 PM ET

Gparted: Will not create another Logical partition

Using Live Gparted on USB flash drive to define another partition in unallocated space, it insists on creating a new *primary* partition, rather than another Logical partition within the Extended partition. The layout (as created by the Mageia-2 ...

Message posted on the August 27th, 2012 - 11:58 AM ET

Moving Debian installation to another partition.

Hello kind people. The story is, that I want to install FreeBSD on my computer, but unfortunately i don't have spare primary partition (only logical one), and as freBSD documentation says, I can only install it on primary partition, so I'm ...

Message posted on the October 9th, 2010 - 3:30 PM ET

eliminating the swap file

I have a naive question: Is it possible to configure Windows 2000 Pro to run without a swap file or move/redirect the swap file to ram (C: is a FAT32 partition if it matters)? I only ask because the dialog box states that the minimum allowable swap ...

Message posted on the July 30th, 2009 - 9:58 AM ET

Bug#692168: [d-i beta3 btrfs] Unable to install lilo or grub, when / partition is btrfs

Package: installation-reports Boot method: booting virtual machine from CD http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta3/i386/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b3-i386-netinst.iso Date: 02. Nov 2012 Machine: Virtualbox VM Partitions: guided ...

Message posted on the November 2nd, 2012 - 4:50 PM ET

Bug#642115: debian-installer: guided full disk encryption + LVM complains about insecure swap

Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Hi, Using a daily build: -rw-r--r-- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 240M Sep 16 10:00 debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso If you choose Guided / Encrypted / LVM as the partitioning type, the resulting scheme chosen by ...

Message posted on the September 19th, 2011 - 11:10 AM ET