23 Nov
2020
23 Nov
'20
1:10 p.m.
On Monday 23 November 2020, Slávek Banko via tde-users wrote:
On Monday 23 of November 2020 17:40:32 BorgLabs - Kate
Draven wrote:
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
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