Ktorrent xpert needed.

[Steven Vollom]

On Thursday 26 February 2009 13:58:29 Ric Moore wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 03:39 -0500, Steven Vollom wrote:
> > On Thursday 26 February 2009 02:40:19 Nils Kassube wrote:
> > > Steven Vollom wrote:
> > > > I don't have the foggiest idea why it doesn't show up.
> > > >
> > > > steven at Studio25:~$ sudo cat /etc/fstab
> > > >
> > > > /dev/sdb5 /media/sdb5 ext3 owner, ...
> > > > /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ext3 owner, ...
> > > > /dev/sdc1 /media/sdc1 auto users, ...
>
> Good Rule of Thumb, don't mount anything to /media except removable
> media such as floppies, CD's, DVD's, USB drives. Any of these will
> automatically mount to /media if you leave them alone and will show up
> on your desktop as an icon, plus the popup window will appear asking
> what you want to do with them. This is a good thing and best left alone.
> The thing with Linux, as opposed to Windows, is that Linux will
> cheerfully do whatever you tell it do. It rarely does stuff on it's own
> that is not in your best interests. So, somehow, you must have made it
> happen. I set all of my downloading to my desktop so I can readily see
> what is hogging up my harddrive and remember to deal with it, or erase
> it. Like you, I am a video hog, too. <grins sheepishly)
>
> Mounting harddrive partitions CAN go to /mnt but usually are mounted to
> places like /home or /usr/local or /opt, for instance, if it's to be
> permanently noted in /etc/fstab. If it's short use, temporary and sweet,
> use /mnt instead. Notice that it's short for "mount", which is what you
> are doing. Mounting a harddrive partition to a place for temporary usage
> by some application and not for usual system usage.
>
> And, don't push a red button. Red is never a good color to push. :) Ric
>
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>
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> "There are two Great Sins in the world...
> ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
> Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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The first time I installed Linux, I needed a lot of help.  I never knew 
anything about what i was doing, I simple followed the helpers instructions.
In fact my first really difficult thing to understand was mount points.  In any 
event, I wanted storage partitions  I wanted them stable in their size.  I did 
not want temporary files or program files or update data in them.  When it said 
I had 300gb of data remaining, I did not want it to become 259 because of some 
OS activity.  I still like that feature.  

So someone told me to make the mount point on the storage partitions /media.  
In dual boot, / was always the primary of the default OS and /media was always 
the Primary of the other OS; then /media/<whatever the partition was> became 
the identity of the partitions.  Once that way, it was easy to remember where 
they were and what they were, just storage.  They only grew if you put 
something in them; they only got smaller if you removed something, but they 
never changed size unless you were actively aware of the change.  

Nothing with an engine ran in them.  If I mount them in my home partition they 
are always affected by what happens while using the OS to do work.  I don't 
want that.  I keep my primary partitions just large enough to take care of 
fluctuating business; storing a couple of movies might overload the drive.

Now that I am retired, most of my wake time is used making art, communicating 
on the Internet, and watching movies.  Because of the method I have chosen for 
my partitions, I don't have to worry if I download 10gb of data, because it is 
downloaded to a partition I know will not over load if I am not paying 
attention.  If it will hold the amount of data I intend to download I can 
pretty much forget about it when I am close on space, which is a common 
occurrence.  If I need a gb of space, I just remove a bad movie.  And because 
information is not going in and out all the time, like temp files and the such, 
each file in storage pretty much stays in the same position, I think.  In 
windows it was always needing defragging.  

I don't even know if what I have chosen to do makes any difference, I do know 
that it works for me, and satisfies the logic of my thoughts.

Steven