partitions

Rain Designs · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 4:00 am Post subject: partitions

Does it matter where I put the partition? Like for instance in fdisk you make a new partition then you select what block it goes in (I think, I can't really remember) and then you select the size.

I am asking this because I run a gaming server and there are some unexplained crashes both in the system logs and in the game logs. I placed the partition in the highest block possible. I run Gentoo 1.2

Thanks

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dementedblitz · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 88

Use cfdisk makes life much easier .. WAY easier
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Rain Designs · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 4:03 am Post subject:

quick reply

Did you read what I editted?
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masseya · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 4:06 am Post subject:

The short answer is no, not really. The long answer is that you can optimize for performance if you know the particulars about your hard drive. This would mean that you can put high traffic disk areas on the outer portions of your platters so that the disk head doesn't have to travel as far to reach them. It's a little different for every drive and I'm sure you can find more info on this from google if you are really interested. However, most of the time this doesn't matter unless you are a total performance freak.
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masseya · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 4:09 am Post subject:

Ok, now that I've read what you edited you might be interested in testing your disk to make sure that there are no bad sectors. The fsck man page should help with this some.

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Rain Designs · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 4:14 am Post subject:

I ran "fsck /dev/hda1" (I only have 1 hd) and it said that there weren't any errors. I'm still clueless :cry:

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Thanks a lot for the advice. Thats pretty interesting about the performance issue.

Thanks

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Ethernal · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 8:59 am Post subject:

fschk /dev/hda1 only checks the first partition, did you try fschk /dev/hda ?
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Rain Designs · Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 2:06 am Post subject:

I tried fsck /dev/hda and I got this:

Rain Designs · Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 5:31 am Post subject:

anyone?
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rac · Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 5:40 am Post subject:

fsck only works on filesystems, not entire drives.
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Rain Designs · Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 11:55 pm Post subject:

rac · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 12:01 am Post subject:

Rain Designs · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 2:03 am Post subject:

k thanks

I have been experiencing these weird "crashes" lately.

First off I run gentoo 1.2 on a 1700+ Athlon XP with 1gb pc2100 ram.

I run half life and all of a sudden client's pings will jump and then the server will "crash" but when it comes back online ( I setup a shell script to restart the game) it acts as though it never crashed. I tested my ram, I tested my hd, any suggestions on whats wrong?

Thanks

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rac · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 4:44 am Post subject:

Which kernel sources are you using?
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Rain Designs · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:41 am Post subject:

I couldn't tell you cause I don't know. I just ran the stage 3 tarbal, I skipped stage 1 and 2 when installing

any ideas?

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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

What is the output of uname -r?
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