On Mon September 2 2024 13:50:37 dep via tde-users wrote: > First, I'm trying to remember how to do a fill low-level check of the > drive, to knock out any bad sectors, etc. I don't think GParted does it. Thirty years ago I used SpinRite but these days I just run badblocks over the whole drive in read-write mode. The drive itself hides bad sectors and replaces them with spare sectors. > Second, I'm trying to figure out how to best partition the thing, to get it > to boot properly. I know there needs to be a dinky FAT32 partition > someplace. What I don't know is where it should be and what size it should > be. After that I'll have a non-home partition and a /home partition, as > well as /swap. Is there any new thought as to the ideal size of the swap > partition? Machine has 32 gigs of memory, and I do not keep a huge number > of applications open at once, but I will have a lot of drive space. Any > settled preference as to the location of the swap partition? I use LVM wherever possible. Not only can you resize logical volumes when your needs change, but if you split the drive up into 8 or 10 physical volumes then when a new disk error arises you can easily migrate the data out of the affected physical volume and then use badblocks on just that physical volume to cause the drive to hide and replace the bad sector, and then return the repaired physical volume to your logical volume. At the front of the drive before the LVM physical volumes/partitions my laptop has a 260M EFI partition - it probably came that way with Windows from Lenovo - and it's currently 12% full. --Mike ____________________________________________________ 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
