On Monday 23 November 2020, Slávek Banko via tde-users wrote: > On Monday 23 of November 2020 17:40:32 BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote: > > Ok update on the audio card question. > > > > Card chosen = SB Audigy RX - 100% natively supported. Please note this > > card has an optical io port that is ON by default when first installed. > > Turn it off to activate the 1/8 jacks. Otherwise there will be no signal > > out or in (no audio/mic/ or linein). > > > > The sound quality is as good as the card it replaced which is now in > > Gary's (brother from another mother) computer. He's having fun. Sadly, > > the RX, doesn't have a break out box like the Platinum does, so I have > > to make one. No biggy, 3 wires in a project box. > > > > According to the headaches I gave out freely at Creative Labs and a > > variety of other source. Any emu10kx chip is native on linux and, > > infact, has better support than mac and windows. Yeeeah for us. > > > > So.. solved, concluded, moving on (if anyone has any question please > > feel free to ask). > > > > Next... > > > > As I said I'm rebuilding me 20 year old machine. > > > > Here's a basics parts list. > > > > Asus Prime x299-a 2 (great bloody board) > > 32G Corsair RAM (32K I think) > > Intel Core i9-10980XE Cascade Lake 3.0 GHz LGA 2066 > > > > The computer has 7 hard drives, 1 BR optical drive (the board has 8 sata > > ports). 1 Seagate (sg) 500g ssd root / boot drive (sda) > > 1 sg 2tb ssd home (sdb) > > 5 (ssd & spin drives) are work drives and archives for redudant backups. > > Then there are 2 hotswap bays with can hold 2 drives a piece on an addon > > pci-e sata controller. > > > > The board uses uefi. So, I'd like some advice on the sda drive setup. > > > > Here's what I was going for essentially. > > > > Swap = 32G (I know it seems like overkill but lots of 4k video work so > > it helps plus need to hibernate). > > > > ESP partition of vfat32 / XX mbs. There's the first question, how big > > should it be? Test install is using 32mb. No other OSes will be > > installed. > > > > The remaining space will be used for / and all the software. > > > > sda1 = swap - 32g > > sda2 = esp - xx size > > sda3 = / - remaining space > > > > Second question, partition order. Good or are there better arrangements. > > > > sb1 /home (in case anyone needs to know). > > > > All input is welcomed. > > > > As always, thank you again collective, > > > > Kate > > I'm used to using a concept that gives me a lot of variability: > > Now I usually use GPT. > > The first partition is either ESP or BIOS boot (depending on the > capabilities of the machine) - I give 100MiB, even though it is an > oversized size for both cases. > > The second partition for RAID1 intended for the system as such - depending > on the purpose, either 10 GIB (servers) or 20 GiB (for a desktop machine), > or how much you need for your system. > > And the rest of the disk as the third partition for LVM. Subsequently, I > create all other partitions as LV in LVM - swap, var, tmp, home, backups, > videos, disks for virtual machines... as needed. > > Thanks to LVM there is a huge amount of freedom. There is no need to deal > with the sequence and continuity of partitions on a disks. It is possible > to select different types of raid for each LV. It is possible to increase > the LV capacity completely without outages. It is possible to migrate LV > between physical disks without outages... Very comfortable. > > Cheers I forgot to say thank you Slavek & Nik and all for sharing. As for the gear however, I had me reasons for choosing what I did. I know my needs. All I wanted was thoughts on partition arrangement and sizes for the boot drive. For now I'll use Nik and Slaveks suggestions but I can always reinstall if something comes up. It litterally only takes 3 mins. I keep all the rpms locally so no need to redownload anything (expect for newer packages if there are any). Kate ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
