[02:58] <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.
[03:04] <head_victim> blahdeblah: what size does it need to be?
[03:05] <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.
[03:06] <head_victim> I think they're only 5 - 10gb though
[03:07] <blahdeblah> That's OK
[03:08] <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
[03:09] <head_victim> They're out of compaq armada's
[03:10] <head_victim> It's an IBM Travelstar 6.49gb 4200rpm drive.
[03:10] <blahdeblah> Cool - 5 GB is probably about the smallest practical
[03:11] <head_victim> Should be working
[03:12] <head_victim> Hah, it's a p2, not even a p3
[03:14] <blahdeblah> Any others?  Obviously the larger and newer, the better...
[03:14] <head_victim> I'll have a look at the other 2
[03:17] <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?
[03:19] <blahdeblah> Don't go to any trouble
[03:19] <blahdeblah> I don't want to take away something you're using
[03:20] <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
[03:22] <head_victim> Hitachi Travelstar 4200rpm 40gb
[03:24] <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
[05:34] <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.
[07:21] <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.
[08:31] <kaushal> is it better to go with btrfs or ext4
[08:31] <kaushal> in 10.10
[08:37] <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
[08:38] <kaushal> hard disk
[08:38] <kaushal> so how would the partition go
[08:39] <kaushal> is it first sda1 /boot
[08:39] <kaushal> sda2 /home
[08:39] <kaushal> sda3 /
[08:39] <kaushal> sda4 swap
[08:39] <kaushal> ?
[08:44] <kaushal> nisshh: yt >?
[08:58] <nisshh> sorry, i was afk
[08:58] <nisshh> kaushal, well, i just have / and /home partitions
[08:59] <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
[09:00] <kaushal> ok
[09:00] <kaushal> so swap is the last partition ?
[09:04] <nisshh> kaushal, normally, swap is created automatically, but yeah, its the last partition normally
[09:05] <kaushal> nisshh: are there wiki or doc for the recommended partition ?
[09:07] <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
[09:08] <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
[09:30] <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.