Re: Arch box fine tuning

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On 06/14/2012 11:01 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote:
Hi everybody,

after a few months of running ArchLinux, I feel more comfortable to fine tune my box, and will be happy to get some advices.

I am far from being an expert, but usually manage to understand what I am doing and achieve my goals, even if it takes time and a lot of reading and googling. I can qualified myself as a n00b++.

My Arch is installed on a SSD with a /boot, / and /usr partitions on it. /home is on another 2T SATA HD. My box dual boot with Ubuntu, even if I don't use it much often now (I wanted to start with Ubuntu to learn, then switch gradually to Arch).
The host is a 4 CPU I7 3.4 Mhz with 32 RAM.

Here are the changes I plan to make:

-convert from MBR to GPT. I understand GPT is more convenient, and the move seems quite trivial using gdisk. -install GRUB2 on the SSD, as until now it was on Ubuntu, and I want to be able to totally delete this distro. -copy my separate /usr partition to my / on the SSD, as a separate /usr is not very convenient. I manage it, but would like to stick to upstream. -install compiz over my XFCE, to be able to give position to my app windows. I want somethimg simple, so maybe don't need the whole group.
-build my own Kernel to light it, and maybe give a try to Liquorix
-OC my GPU (Nvidia 560 GTX) with nvclock.
-create some VM, but I think I am quite OK as I already trained on Ubuntu and the result was fine. I want to install Debian squeeze to run as a web server. Here again, just a training as my final plan is to build a professional website using a remote dedicated Linux server.

As experienced users, maybe some of you have some good advices about all this. I usually do everything following Archwiki, very well writen and understandable.

TY in advance for sharing experience and hints.


I installed nvclock, and doesn't work with my card. It seems rater outdated. Uninstalled it. AS for building the Kernel, I will start using my current config file (proc/config.gz if I am right) and gradually with menu config removed unused parts. Does anyone have a good and comprehensive pointer for all menus in menuconfig, as I do not a lot about hardware?

TY,


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