Guest dbc254 Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 I want to reload 2008.1. I thought I read somewhere, that if I put / on one drive and /home on the other, that I would experience a speed increase vs both partitions on one drive [have this at present] I have a 100gb and an 80gb drive. Is it worth the bother of reinstalling? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tux99 Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 You might quite likely get a speed increase, it depends on your usage patterns, the speed of the 2 drives, and how they are connected. You don't need to re-install Mandriva to do that, just create a filesystem on the second hdd, mount it temporarily on some other mount point (for example /home2), login directly as root and copy over all content from /home to /home2. Then unmount the old /home, change the /etc/fstab to point to the new home filesystem device and mount it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 If you do it just to get a speed increase, I thiink you might be disappointed. It's a good idea for other reasons too, like getting a clean separation of the system from the user data. Next time you do another install on top, you can format / without affecting the /home partition, which is quite convenient! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Generally, it's a very good idea to have separate / and /home partitions for backup purposes, as well as other things (e.g. reiserfs 3.6 is still the fastest for / while for /home you may wish to use ext4 or xfs), but I highly doubt that putting them in different HD's will help, speed-wise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoe Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 One way which gives extra speed if your system is low on RAM and swapping a lot is by putting swap partitions on both. I had this and found that even hooking up one the first generation WS passports as additional swap speeded up large image-file editing with GIMP considerably. Two reasons: more swap space and Linux can spread what it wants to swap over two drives. Don't expect miracles though and if you really need speed to solve this -- buy more RAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonseth17 Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 Generally, it's a very good idea to have separate / and /home partitions for backup purposes, as well as other things (e.g. reiserfs 3.6 is still the fastest for / while for /home you may wish to use ext4 or xfs), but I highly doubt that putting them in different HD's will help, speed-wise. I agree..I don't think you would get more speed...you're mounting a different device to your / and it could be IDE/SATA...it may reduce more your speed than running partitions (reading 1 HD at the time) I don't think you should get more ram...as pindakoe said...I think you need a new processor if urs giving speed delays...you got swap when ram is full and mandi doesn't ask u 4 1GB of ram using more than 18 applications opened (I've tried that, is my experience)... B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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