| blahdeblah | Anyone out there got an old 2.5 inch ATA drive they would be willing to part with free/cheap? I'm looking to replace one in my son's laptop that died, and i can't justify the $80 replacement price tag for a laptop that's worth less than $50. | 02:58 |
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| head_victim | blahdeblah: what size does it need to be? | 03:04 |
| blahdeblah | Whatever | 03:05 |
| blahdeblah | Big enough to fit Ubuntu on it :-) | 03:05 |
| head_victim | blahdeblah: I'll have a looksee, other than that laptop you donated to me I have several old p3 laptops, if it's big enough you're welcome to a hdd. | 03:05 |
| head_victim | I think they're only 5 - 10gb though | 03:06 |
| blahdeblah | That's OK | 03:07 |
| head_victim | I'll just confirm that by firing one up though, don't want you driving over here ot find out they're 500mb or something | 03:08 |
| head_victim | They're out of compaq armada's | 03:09 |
| head_victim | It's an IBM Travelstar 6.49gb 4200rpm drive. | 03:10 |
| blahdeblah | Cool - 5 GB is probably about the smallest practical | 03:10 |
| head_victim | Should be working | 03:11 |
| head_victim | Hah, it's a p2, not even a p3 | 03:12 |
| blahdeblah | Any others? Obviously the larger and newer, the better... | 03:14 |
| head_victim | I'll have a look at the other 2 | 03:14 |
| head_victim | The laptop you donated to me is a30 or 40 gb I think | 03:17 |
| head_victim | I could swap the older one into it and give you that? | 03:17 |
| blahdeblah | Don't go to any trouble | 03:19 |
| blahdeblah | I don't want to take away something you're using | 03:19 |
| head_victim | I'm only using 3.5gb of it with my lubuntu install anyway | 03:20 |
| head_victim | Just seeing how it comes out to see what it really is | 03:20 |
| head_victim | Hitachi Travelstar 4200rpm 40gb | 03:22 |
| head_victim | It will still leave me with a usable system so I don't mind considering you gave it all to me to start with | 03:24 |
| blahdeblah | head_victim: OK, well thanks for that. Sounds like exactly the same drive as came out of it. I'll email you when i'm going to be over your way sometime. | 05:34 |
| head_victim | blahdeblah: no worries I think you have my mobile number still as well. If you can just give me around 24 hours notice so I can make sure I'll be home. | 07:21 |
| kaushal | is it better to go with btrfs or ext4 | 08:31 |
| kaushal | in 10.10 | 08:31 |
| nisshh | kaushal, stick with ext4, btrfs doesnt allow itself to be used as a boot partition yet | 08:37 |
| kaushal | nisshh: ok | 08:37 |
| kaushal | nisshh: also i have 160 GB | 08:37 |
| kaushal | hard disk | 08:38 |
| kaushal | so how would the partition go | 08:38 |
| kaushal | is it first sda1 /boot | 08:39 |
| kaushal | sda2 /home | 08:39 |
| kaushal | sda3 / | 08:39 |
| kaushal | sda4 swap | 08:39 |
| kaushal | ? | 08:39 |
| kaushal | nisshh: yt >? | 08:44 |
| nisshh | sorry, i was afk | 08:58 |
| nisshh | kaushal, well, i just have / and /home partitions | 08:58 |
| nisshh | kaushal, tbh, if you have to ask, you probably dont need all four partitions | 08:59 |
| nisshh | kaushal, just have / and /home and swap, thats all you need | 08:59 |
| kaushal | ok | 09:00 |
| kaushal | so swap is the last partition ? | 09:00 |
| nisshh | kaushal, normally, swap is created automatically, but yeah, its the last partition normally | 09:04 |
| kaushal | nisshh: are there wiki or doc for the recommended partition ? | 09:05 |
| kaushal | and also wht btrfs is introduced in 10.10 ? | 09:07 |
| nisshh | kaushal, there is no "recommended" way of setting out your partitions, there are just several popular and well worn ways | 09:07 |
| kaushal | why* | 09:07 |
| kaushal | if its in development phase | 09:07 |
| nisshh | kaushal, its best not to ask me that :) | 09:08 |
| nisshh | after all, im not the one who made the decision to include it | 09:08 |
| head_victim | kaushal: if you're not sure what you're doing with partitioning then it's best to just do the "guided" option of installation and let it decide what's best. | 09:30 |
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